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Do you know the difference between a sacrifice and an offering?I think we have gone a little bit cuckoo with the word sacrifice. You know, in essence, it comes from the word sacred, but it has been devoid of an important part of that sacredness that is transformational. Therefore it is lacking in full meaning.Sacrifice is the action of consecrating. So what is it that one is consecrating without using a transformational part that has disappeared in the meaning of it? Now it reads as something you have to give up. And when you have that energy of giving up, you tend to hold on more to it.I tune more to the word offering. I have this image of a Buddhist altar or even a Christian altar, and you light a candle. You offer something. You decide to become aware of what is at stake in the relationship of what you are looking at, that you are willing to extend, you are willing to care, to bring and carry forward. It is a relationship to something bigger.So letting go is the dissolution of it, is the dissolving, is the surrendering to a new relation to yourself in those matters that comes from understanding that what you offer transforms into this new realm.I am offering myself time as a wave that determines clarity when it has completed its function. It is not time like Kronos. It is more time like Kairos. It is the right timing so I can gain clarity. I am also offering myself space. Not a place, but leeway, in my body, my mind, a space within my emotional vessel. It is a territory I never gave myself because I felt the urgency to always be there for others.I am not being pulled by anyone or anything at the moment. This time and space that I am offering are very balanced, slowly being absorbed. They are not judgmental. They possess no urgency. They are just there contracting and expanding.I have been very interested in fascia work. Fascia is what holds the water in the body, and it requires some tweaking in the neck and the pelvic floor. And so this adjusting, this flow of movement is rotational. It is like the earth. We rotate around the sun. We rotate around the galaxy where we also self rotate. And we have pretty much a binary body where we have almost two of everything, with some exceptions, like the liver. The liver is the organ that detoxifies. It is also the one carrying anger. And I wonder if I have been carrying a lot of anger as a Manifestor/Initiator that needs to be expressed in a way that it does not break, but it actually informs my field of where I am not willing to do a so called sacrifice, but where I am willing to offer space for my own unfolding. From the TCM perspective, anger is the energy of the liver, not necessarily the organ per se, but the energy of that circuitry. And in my case, it is about understanding that that anger as an emotion has the potential for evolution. If I understand its frequency as something that is driving me to move into another direction, breaking away the stagnation. Now it could be sensed as an activated reaction, or can it be initiating an awareness as a response? So that is where timing comes in. Whereas space and time expand, contract, and calibration can take place.Fascia operates through what is called tensegrity, a word coined by Buckminster Fuller from tension and integrity. It is a structural principle that the body maintains its form not through rigid compression like a building, but through a continuous balance of tension and resistance distributed across the entire fascial network. Both the flexibility of the geometry that tensegrity brings and the crystallization of water live inside this structure, because it is a matrix inside our body that carries an emotional archive. The mechanics operate through a closed kinematic chain, mechanical loops where each part influences the position, the motion, and the stability of all the others. Kinematics is geometry in motion. The molecules of water get absorbed and at the same time dry out because there is no mobility, there is no circulation, and this membrane stops resonating with the rest of the body. And it is in that dryness, where there is no circulation, that the body keeps the score of trauma in its geometry.This is a big question for me in these days, because I am questioning those parts of myself that need to go because they do not offer me any potential for evolution. They have served their purpose. They have emanated. They have transformed themselves. They have metabolized.And so I am questioning my sense of value at all levels. The places where I trust blindly, the places where I mistrust behind me. The places where I could be completely wrong.There are two words I bring right now: control and definition. How can you support and define something without having to be controlling, but be on top of it, which is different. How to create a fluid, flowing state of circulation so things do not get stagnated, and they actually serve the purpose that they are meant for, resources.Trust. What does trust really mean? Is it just based on faith, or trust is an interior authority that emanates and connects with the source.Trust has been reduced to faith and trust in external authority, trust in external morality, and not so much embedded in the integrity or principles of individuals that can actually yield to the human action and subjective value of people’s lives.These are very deep, deep, deep questions that are arising right now. They do not come with fear. I want to confront them differently.They possess no urgency nor judgment. They are just contracting and expanding like the rib cage does under the spell of a diaphragm. How to create a flowing state of circulation so things do not get stagnated, and they actually serve the purpose that they are meant for. I want to calibrate them all. I want to give them space. I want to give them space.It is an offering, not a sacrifice.NEW MOON IN TAURUS, NEW EMBODIMENTThis week I am venturing myself to the city of Vancouver, Canada. Never been there before. I am going to be attending the workshop Family Constellations And Systemic Therapy with Tiziano Sguerso, a systemic practitioner and Constellations observer, whose work I have shared in this space before. He asked me to connect to my grandfather and to my mother and to take over the unconscious weight of his anger that she was carrying until she died, that was so crystallized, I developed kidney stones the next day. It took six months, and I was able to connect the dots during therapy sessions with Mark Jones. Everything coming from the subconscious, revealing itself through the body, has been quite a magical year for me in that sense. I am offering myself the space and opportunity to keep integrating ancestral trauma that I have been carrying without my consent, and now that I have awareness, I am just releasing it and allowing new space to emerge, and the sky is offering the same invitation to all of us.There is a sequence worth noting. Venus crossed Chiron on the 26th of March, and at that time the Sun was conjunct Saturn, so there was some initial light given to what is the structure that needs to have integrity, that needs to have fluidity in our lives. Where, how are we going to find that shape? Then the new moon in Aries was conjunct Chiron on the 17th of April. Mercury passed that same point on May the 2nd. And now Mars is joining Chiron at this new moon in Taurus on May the 16th. One by one, each planet moving through the same wound. The wound of individuality. The sensibility that does not allow you to take space for your own Selfhood because you are afraid of being cast out or told that you do not belong, or you are told to behave in a very restrictive way. You are still afraid of taking that space and speaking up.This new moon is in Taurus, a fixed sign. And what the rest of the zodiac is telling us is that if there is no space to breathe, if there is no space to calibrate, then the society and the bodies stagnate. Taurus is the fixed earth sign of embodiment, resources, and what the body holds. For seven years Uranus was in Taurus rupturing all of that, the nervous system, the material ground, the sense of what is stable and what is owned and what is valuable. That disruption is now complete. Uranus has moved into Gemini, into the air, into the mind and communication and the nervous system as information rather than as shock. So this new moon in Taurus is the first one in seven years where the body is no longer being ruptured from within. The ground is stabilizing. Mercury in Taurus with the new moon is the mind slowing down to meet the body, thinking through the senses rather than through abstraction. Ceres in Taurus is the principle of nourishment, of what feeds and sustains, of the cycles of giving and receiving that the earth itself embodies. And tensegrity is not only metabolizing the disruption. It is acting with precision. The rotation returning. The water in the matrix beginning to circulate again after the dryness. Uranus in Gemini nearby means the liberation is still present but it has moved from the body into the voice, into what is now free to be spoken that could not be spoken before.And this is where Pluto retrograde in Aquarius enters. Pluto just went retrograde, returning to dwell in the question of what does it mean to be individual in the context of a collective or a tribe. Where do I yield my power to others and where do I stand on my boundaries in a healthy way. This is a big question.I AM OPtimist îs a FREE NEWSLETTER This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

One of the things that I am deeply in contemplation about is what identity really means. Do I need to identify as a person? As my gender? As my vocation? Just as a human being? Or as a polymath that has so many different variations depending on which angle I am willing to serve and to express in that given moment. "I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars." Jorge Luis Borges — The Garden of Forking Paths, in Ficciones, 1944SYNTHESISWhat is converging in my life right now is the recognition that everything I have been building interiorly for a long time is slowly ready to move into the world, and the steadiness I feel in that recognition comes from the quality of the interior work itself, the untangling of the chords that shaped me prior to choosing otherwise, the freeing of space that was previously occupied by patterns that were never mine to carry.I feel blessed because I have been meeting with Mark Jones for 18 months steadily to support the navigation into my psychic untangling. Any chords that defined me are now being freed by the space. It is human action at its best, far away from being an effort or hard work.Who is Mark Jones, you may ask? He is the astrologer and psychotherapist whose books and teachings have accompanied my understanding of evolutionary astrology for a long time, long enough that I waited for many years before I felt ready to receive a reading and direct transmissions from him. That moment arrived in 2024. We met for the first time in mid-October 2024, and a couple of months later I knew I was ready to commit to a deeper working relationship. These are conversations where the chart serves as a living map and you are always the territory, always interior, always personal, always asking what is actually driving this, and what would it feel like to stop being driven by something that was never yours to carry in the first place.My Pluto in the 8th house requires this kind of work, it cannot operate on the surface. It is important to have a guide who can hold the depth without flinching, who reflects what is said with precision and returns it with a quality of witness that makes it possible to see something that was previously too close to be seen clearly.Trust is my middle name Inner trust is my inner and outer authority Trust is the architecture of my value “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.” Jorge Luis Borges — A New Refutation of Time, in Other Inquisitions, 1952FACTSI had my solar return last week. My Sun is in Taurus in the 3rd house, and within days of that threshold, Mercury is returning to Taurus and Mars is returning to Aries. Venus follows, returning to Gemini in the 5th house. Four personal planets resetting within the same window the new solar year opens. The entire personal field seeds itself again from the beginning, all at once, in the first days of year 5.The full Moon landed exactly on my natal Moon in Scorpio in the 9th house, and it formed a Finger of God [YOD] with Saturn and Venus as the two base points pointing directly to that Moon. A Finger of God is a precise convergence, two inconjunct lines meeting at an apex that has no choice but to receive what they are sending. Saturn and Venus both in quincunx [150° aspect] to my Moon in Scorpio meant the full illumination of the emotional body arrived through a double adjustment from structure and from creative value simultaneously. This was a full calibration, a precise demand from the chart that I receive the instruction the Moon was carrying at its own natal degree. My Moon rules my North Node in Cancer in the 5th house. The evolutionary direction was lit completely at that moment. From an uncomfortable body sensation, to small calibrations, to mutations that slowly become transmutation.The transiting nodal axis is sitting on my natal Uranus in Virgo in the 7th house and my natal Saturn in Pisces in the 1st house. The nodal axis crossing both of these simultaneously means the evolutionary pressure of this moment is landing directly on the axis between personal identity and encounter with the other, on the structure I carry as self and the liberating impulse that has always moved through relationship. The nodes on Uranus and Saturn together are asking what authority looks like when it has been freed from the conditioning that originally shaped it.Transiting Uranus in Gemini in my 4th house is squaring that same nodal axis. Uranus in Gemini in the 4th house is liberating the root, the interior life, the foundation of how I think from the ground up. The 4th house is the private interior, the ancestral structure, what was laid down before conscious choice. Uranus moving through Gemini there is rewiring the foundational mental and communicative patterns at the level of origin. The square to the transiting nodal axis from that position means the disruption of the root is directly enrolled in the evolutionary direction.The emergence of authority is the theme this whole configuration is pointing toward. Saturn in Aries in my 2nd house building stable structure in the domain of material value and resources. Mercury returning to Taurus in the 3rd house reseeding the mind and communication on solid, embodied ground. The nodal axis activating natal Saturn and natal Uranus simultaneously means the structure of identity and the liberating impulse are both being enrolled in what is emerging. Authority that is earned through embodiment. I dismantle every hierarchy that arrives morally imposed from the outside. Value that is established through what I have actually built in the domain of communication and creative expression.Every personal planet returning to its natal degree while simultaneously being pressed by an outer planet. Mercury and Sun in Taurus receiving the Pluto square. The mind and identity renewing under transformative pressure. Mars returning to Aries receiving the Jupiter square from Cancer, asking what the drive is actually feeding. Venus returning to Gemini in the 5th house arriving into territory Uranus just opened. The creative principle reseeds into a field that has already been liberated.Saturn in Aries in my 2nd house is forming a quincunx to natal Pluto Rx in Virgo in my 8th house. What I am building in the domain of material value and resources sits in permanent calibration with the interior transformative process in the 8th. Saturn in Aries wants form, wants concrete action, wants to establish something. Pluto Rx in Virgo in the 8th holds the requirement to release, to let the interior do its work before anything is grasped. The quincunx between these two asks me to adjust continuously, holding what I am structuring in calibration with what I am releasing.The South Node in Virgo carries a deep prior pattern of using refinement as a way of managing what Pluto actually wants to transform. The quincunx says the pattern of self-correction needs to be released at the root so that transformation can move through.Pluto crosses a threshold with great deliberation. It circles, retreats, returns, circles again, gathering interior pressure until the crossing can hold what is arriving. Stationing retrograde today, still approaching my Aquarius Ascendant, Pluto is asking whether I am ready for what April 2027 will demand. The retrograde until mid-October is the last interior preparation before the threshold becomes permanent.Neptune in Aries is squaring my nodal axis. Neptune dissolves the fixed coordinates of the evolutionary direction. Capricorn as the past pattern releases its structural rigidity. Cancer as the future direction releases its sentimental image of what nourishment and creativity are supposed to look like. Neptune is removing the pictures I have held of both where I have been and where I am going, so that what is actually true about both can be felt directly, without the mediation of a prior image.Jupiter in Cancer squaring natal Mars in Aries in my 3rd house asks whether what I am pushing toward in the domain of mind and communication is something that genuinely feeds life. Mars returns to its natal degree inside this square. The new cycle of will begins with that question already present.I am a 6/2 profile and a life path 6. The 6/2 stays aloof until needed, observing from a distance, by design. The life path 6 carries the same frequency, the one who lives the ideal, who becomes the living example, the role model, so to speak. Both sixes converging in a year 5 means the disruption of this year is the moment when the aloof observer is called down from the roof because what she has been embodying is now needed.Year 5 personally in year 1 for humanity means that the change I am moving through is part of the collective reset. The personal field reorganizing at every level simultaneously is part of what year 1 looks like for a 6/2 in the third phase.INVITATIONLanguage is a tool like Technè and what emerges with practice are skills. Would you like to learn these languages so you can become adept with these powerful skills? Stay tuned. What is coming next week will give you the tools to read your own life with this precision."A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face." Jorge Luis Borges — Epilogue to El hacedor (Dreamtigers), 1960Below are three recommendations that require time and attention, two things most of us struggle to find. Where in your life can you make space for yourself is my question?The Shining: Apollo — Jason Jorjani Apolar Money: Lecture Global Economy and Finance Conference, Seoul — Saifedean Ammous Last but not least, Mark Jones on Uranus in Gemini. Bernhard Guenther and Laura Matsue Guenther. May the force be with your curiosity!!!!!! Monika Bravo I AM OPtimist îs a FREE NEWSLETTER This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

"Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."~Italo Calvino, Invisible CitiesWorth without witness... is that what value really is? Fire, then form. To go forth in trust, things I left behind. The uncomfortable angle of a quincunx is a pressure that is nameless. The space is generated to tweak slowly. Fearless in a dream as the snake tilts the lid, raw impulse unleashes an emergence. Profound perception: the light goes through the door identifying with nothing. An invitation arrives in a timeless location carried by curiosity. Intensity comes through at the apex. Structure finds the timing of action. Value emerges from what was and will be said. This is the calibration point. It requires time and space to tune into something new.Happy full moon in Scorpio! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

What has initiated has been taking shape as it grounds. This is Taurus season. Full moon in Scorpio on May 1st, a lunation as when I was born 62 years ago, happy solar return to me. Living with a Scorpio moon in my 9th house has made me seek for deep truth, only to realize after a long journey, that it emanates from within. There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes with understanding that something new is emerging from within.My body has been recording this passage sometimes as tension in the fascia, the membrane that holds water while binding muscle and bone together.This is a beautiful membrane that is allowing fluids and flow at the same time.It is like a breath that wants to go deeper, as it aspires within the rib cage and then slowly releasing, making space for what is new.This is a feeling pulled in more than one direction at the same time, but the interesting thing is that the orientations are not what matters; what matters is the flow, aware, aspiring, and exhaling.This is a new sensation of the self that has slowly been metabolized in the last years but now starts being shaped.Even though I do not have a final definition, I can sense it in the body; it comes here first, so the threshold is here.The discomfort I feel is how my life is composting and metabolizing itself.It is not discomfort in the sense of pain; there is no pain, there is no emotional pain, there is no physical pain.It is just an adjustment that has to happen on a moment-to-moment basis.It is productive and real, and even though I am speaking words, the resolution is not in the mind or with logic.It is more the adaptation of this flow on a moment-to-moment basis, with the body at its center.I will say this is a Renaissance being born again from the inside out, as I carry everything that I have learned, surrendered, and lost, while none of the definitions built around it can comprehend what is transforming. I love this French word borrowed into English somewhere in the 1800s. The Italian artists who lived it first called it “rinascita,” rebirth. And yet, it was not a return to innocence. They were returning to what had always been there: the human body, the direct study of nature and anatomy. Somehow, a return to the classical forms, but seen with new eyes.To be born again is not from nothing but from a full weight of everything already experienced. Time is teaching me to enjoy every moment, as mysterious as I can appear to others. There have been times when I went through the process of trying to explain myself, like in my first book, The Nature of My Reality, which, when read out loud, was my own echo. I realized that the mystery of my individuation was best kept as such. I did not need to explain myself to others, but I did.I come back to the natural posture of someone whose depth cannot be compressed into a stage format, a place of performance, nor to a category that defines and limits at the same time.It is through the experience of knowing, not knowing, and trusting the divine that allows this persona to be sensed but not grasped, like water through the fingers, what stays is the essence of the felt sense not the density of the water, fluid, flowing, gone.Compression of that kind multiplies confusion. What is actually present is a synthesis, and a synthesis does not fit inside any container built to hold a single discipline. The process is the emergence of an insight, a poem, a reading, a vector, a color, a shape, a moment in time. A synthesis is the process of integration that begs to be lived and not to be ingested through the mind.The new cycle is learning to trust that: acting from discernment on a moment-to-moment basis rather than from a fixed identity, allowing the creativity to be the truth rather than the explanation of it.Right now there is a configuration in the sky called a Yod, a finger of God. Two points of concentrated pressure converge into a single apex in my chart. One point carries the plutonic energy of deep transformation of evolution happening at the level of identity itself as it rises on the Ascendant. The other carries the energy of a new face: new ways of initiating, of being supported, of communicating what I know through structure.Both of these pressures are pointing at the same place in my chart: Uranus in Virgo in the seventh house, the planet that rules my Ascendant. The planet that governs how I meet the world and what liberates me from within it. At the same apex, the South Node of the Moon is passing through, asking what has run its course with a lot of discernment. These three together produce a sensation I discover in this body: with no pain. It is a threshold that needs to be adjusted at all times.A lot of stuff that I have been doing last year is detaching myself from an old identity. Whether it is closing my LLCs, dropping everything that is still attached to the company I once opened with my ex after ten years of being divorced, I was still attached to it, not energetically, but it was still there for convenience. This year has been more about caring less about convenience and more about authenticity and cutting cords that are energetic and carry a weight that is unnecessary, absolutely dissolving into the past.It has been a process of revising pretty much everything and what works and what does not work, especially with all the planets in my second house of value. I realized that what I need are basically the new resources and education I have been getting in the last ten years, and how they are serving me to establish a new field that is very different energetically from the one I was brought up with and have lived until now.What started as an uncomfortable feeling has developed into understanding that this is the process of rebirth. Like all births, it is uncomfortable to leave one place for another. I am already on the other side of the threshold, so what I feel now is the excitement of it.This is a time of application. For years, the oppositions in my chart have been the engine: sun opposing moon, Saturn opposing Uranus. Two poles always generating a third way, a synthesis that neither pole contains alone. That friction has been the methodology of my entire life.Now the squares are activating and the quincunxes as well. Neither of those is for synthesis. They ask for adaptation or just movement; they ask for human action; they ask for purposeful behavior. This is the moment where everything that has been synthesized converts into something directed and real that I can grasp and I can ground myself to keep flowing.The resources are here. They are already built: an operational system that grounds the exploration, courses and data converted and integrated into tools that make the knowledge available. A book finishing itself from the inside out.What is asked of me right now is to trust what I have been put into motion and let it work, let it unfold naturally. The work now is to release the material into the world, not to return to its depths, to let the material generate.Venus and Uranus meet tomorrow at the last degree of Taurus, the final point of eight years of excavating what is truly of value. The last degree of a sign carries a full weight of everything that sign has taught, distilled into its closing transmission. They meet at the foundation of my chart in the house of the roots, the family, my ancestors, who gave me an emotional body and also what made me feel safe.They will both cross into Gemini together one day before my birthday. Uranus enters Gemini for the first time to stay after many decades, arriving in my solar return as a new era, seated at the base of everything I am building.The flavor of Gemini is not the same as the excavation of Taurus. It is faster, more versatile, alive with connection and movement of ideas across forms. Last summer, when Uranus briefly touched Gemini, I felt it: without grounding it scatters. The work of the last year has been exactly that: building the foundation. The operational system, the tools, the courses, the synthesis made available through technology; that is a container built before the transit arrived. Low time preference applied to the life of mind. Now Uranus enters Gemini with something and somewhere to land.In this moment of my life, there is a new rebirth. Value is a big deal. In fact, the whole book is built on that. This second book will not be an explanation; it will be an embodiment.The timing of my becoming is the right timing because it has been developed over the course of many years. Nothing has not happened because it did not have to happen. Everything that happens and is happening, I do not want to say it is predestined, but it has been developing, and I have been able to make use of it because I have become aware of it.To be continued. Happy birthday to me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Aries stellium season is here; a rare concentration. The energy is intense, and so is the opportunity to observe the speed of things on a moment-to-moment basis. New Moon conjunct Chiron on the 17th, wishing you take space for your individual self as you integrate your peace within. Stability grounds through what you value, while crisis reveals where your leverage is thin, as it also shows where perfection is inexistent. The Fool moves with risk and rhythm, sometimes feeling butterflies in the stomach while leaning into the unknown and trusting it. I am sharing this beautiful song from WU LYF’s newest album, “A Wave That Will Never Break,” kudos to my friend Ellery James Roberts and his bandmates. become a free subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

What happens when you leave space for yourself? You don’t do it in just one day that you cross off the calendar and cancel your appointments, so you decide to go out for a walk and keep walking the whole day without caring about the things that you’re leaving behind. No. I mean something more profound than that. What happens if you take time and space for that part of yourself that didn’t even know it needed that space? It needed that time. What happens? Something marvelous happens.It feels like the space was there when I stopped rushing for my phone so I could check on people I care about, sending them things. I was not engaged with that anymore; I decided to disengage completely from my caring side to see what would happen to Monika when she’s not holding space for others and allows her own space to speak.Over the last year, this happened to me, and I was finally integrating it, and it’s such a beautiful feeling that I’m at a loss for words, although I need those words because I’m finally putting together the whole process that went from me walking and talking to myself, realizing I had a structure that I wanted to follow. Then I allowed that structure to form a kind of spine, and as that spine was forming, it was allowing, breathing, and shaping itself, slowly receiving the flow that needed to create the space. From occupation, to beautiful self-caring silence.Today is April 8th, one year since Bitcoin’s price touched the bottom after the previous all-time high in December 2024. It gave a different tension to the chart, and I’m in a deep realization and a state of wonderment. What happened in these 365 days?A year ago I was tracking Venus retrograde not just my personal chart but also financially, and I noticed something that W.D. Gann also worked with when he brought mathematics and astrology into financial graphs. From there, price moved again toward the all-time high until October 2025. This is what led me to start seriously looking at financial charts, harmonics, and monitoring the wavelength as a way to also track my nervous system. I know it sounds crazy, but that’s what it is.I am enjoying the contrast the outside reflects with the inside, I am not a psycho, as I have really focused more on all my infinite possibilities. Someone who has inspired me in the last year is Professor Edward Frenkel. I’m dropping below his latest video, “Math Gives Us Hope for the Future”. Every time I listen to him and hear his soft voice with his beautiful Russian accent and his sparkling eyes, he just looks like a little boy in the playground when he speaks about mathematics. It gives me so much hope. It moves me.This week, if you want it, brings lightness while the heaviness outside makes no sense, one bluff after the next, nothing feels real… but I am counter offering the idea of becoming light as a feather. There’s also light, hope, a different quality of life. It’s there for you all. All you have to do is align to that frequency and start embodying it.One of the most inspiring, beautiful things in this video, Frenkel says, “the fact that we all perceive mathematics in the same way means that our minds are connected and so we’re all connected to each other”.I want to say to Professor Edward Frenkel that I did not do well in school with mathematics, maybe because I could not find a point of entry and it led me to close myself to it. I was trying to understand them from my logical side, but I couldn’t tap into them. I failed them every year, even though my mind operates in patterns, the way I was taught just didn’t compute.I’ve been using mathematics in the last ten years pretty much every day when I practice astrology. If you see, the first part of the word is the stars part, and the logos is the part where it makes sense. Astrology is based on numbers, based on the positions of the stars in the sky, and the relationships between them. We have to use mathematics, geometry, and harmonics to understand these relationships that validate themselves with the cycles of these celestial bodies, which is what we call astronomy.Guess what these four form? the QUADRIVIUM, the four ways, defined as the four mathematical sciences: Arithmetic (number in itself), Geometry (number in space), Music (number in time), and Astronomy (number in space and time). These subjects were considered to be the preparatory study for philosophy and theology, and later in medieval universities as a way to understand the created order, as scholars believed the universe was constructed according to geometric and harmonic principles.Of course, there’s another layer that comes from what Jung called the unconscious and the archetypal forms that have been attached to these relationships and phases.The interesting thing for me is that I learned about mathematics through harmonics and through geometry, and I have such a profound love for Pythagoras as well, and for what he brought to the world. Lately, I have found true love for Gurdjieff, because through his teachings I’ve been able to understand how to apply mathematics in my life. The opportunities of certain aspects create a space for me to be able to break free from conditions that I thought were static and were already stagnating. These intervals that happen in music and in nature are the place where I tap into applied mathematics and applied psychology.In my offerings, you will find different ways that I have arrived at applying mathematics, for example Bitcoin; it became a way to understand scarcity and its finite quality and to feel what that actually means in real terms of value and self-esteem as it relates to our essential needs.Have you noticed in the last few weeks that you’ve been renegotiating the way you relate to the world and your values, and you tap into the Uranian energy in Taurus at the last degrees, where these resources suddenly make you realize that if you don’t stand for your value, nobody else will?I’ll guide you into that same electric curiosity and luminous clarity in your life, your chart, and how you make economic decisions. Everything I’m sharing comes from this same process of creating space, while fully understanding structure, as I am able to move with it instead of feeling trapped by it. From failing in maths class to actually living through logic.Aristotle knew that you cannot build a life on assumptions and you have to find that fundamental substance that primal beginning where a thing is simply itself and A cannot be not A if you want to stop the chaos and finally see the gap. As he writes in Metaphysics Book IV: “the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject in the same respect. First principles or Arché (Ancient Greek: ἀρχή.) The behavior in society is what he called ‘Politeia’, which is the origin of the term ‘politics’. Now it is very fundamental to understand that, without individual responsibility, any civilization can be out of alignment because politics is the behavior of the collective and that individual action is what Ludwig von Mises called Human Action, you see? they are interwoven. No self responsibility leads to a society that acts with degeneracy, and gets easily corrupted, no matter how much moralistic views abound if integrity doesn’t stand well on first principles.Therefore, for me, it is necessary that we have a solid foundation to find new ways to connect, to be eloquent, and behave more civilized. I’m a very emotional person that has worked for years, and I have learned to stay with my emotions long enough to channel them into a response. I take time to respond because I have an emotional authority.What happened since I started studying praxeology a few years back is that it gave me the option to look at opportunity cost as the most important decision I make in every moment, shaping the outcomes I experience. Human action is a fundamental state of awareness rooted in logic. If I don’t start with fundamental truth, with first principles, during dialogues or argumentation, while I stay with the logic, everything flows; if I engage emotionally, things turn to chaos. Arché, first principles, can lead to prosperity.Mars, the ruler of Aries, enters its home sign and will be disposing Saturn, Neptune, the Sun, and Chiron. Meanwhile, Mercury exits its shadow in Pisces and meets them next week. The energy is at its peak—LFG!There’s something very real happening right now with how fast everything is moving, especially financially. It matters to me that you have access to understanding it and moving through it with clarity.I created a self-study Bitcoin course for $88. If you feel you want support, I can onboard you and guide you through it one-to-one, and that full experience is $333. You can begin with the $88, and within 30 days move into the rest, and we’ll have a number of calls where I support you directly.At the same time, I’m offering the Evolutionary Astrology Foundation course. This one is very important to me because it is based entirely on the work & direct transmission of Jeffrey Wolf Green and Mark Jones, who I’ve been working with closely over the last year and a half as a therapist and astrologer.I decided to teach it exactly as it was transmitted by Simon Vorster to me because it’s so well done that it stands on its own. It’s pre-recorded, so you can move through it at your own rhythm, and if you want to engage with me, we can also work one-to-one. The recordings on their own are $333, and the full experience, with me guiding you, working through charts together, and supporting you applying everything, is $1,080. By the end you can read the main theme of the chart, yours, or any others…I’m also opening a new cohort as a Human Design study group, which is much more of an embodied space. We meet twice a month, and we work directly with our chart, our energy, and how we are responding to what is already unfolding. This is a penta structure, five people only, and I facilitate it.Human Design also carries a deep mathematical structure, and it gave me a way to understand time cycles in a very embodied way. It connects directly to I Ching, the hexagrams, and the ancient Taoist cosmology that I studied with a master for 12 years while I was living in New York.2027 is approaching, the Cross of Planning is closing, and this becomes a space to actually feel how you are moving within that, how you relate to your authority, and how you engage with all of this in a way that feels supportive and aligned. The Cross of Planning used logic through institutions, and that is what is dissolving. I describe logic as something I arrive at through my own experience, as internal coherence. I have done the work of integrating my emotional field, my timing, and my body awareness, and from that place, when I engage with others, I use logic so that what I say lands clearly and carries direction. The Cross of Planning placed logic outside of us, and now I experience it as something that moves through me, because when emotion moves too quickly it can take over the moment, and I have learned to stay with it long enough so that when I speak, what comes through is organized and connected to what is actually happening. Emotion is alive through signal, logic becomes language, and through action we shape our destiny. We are entering the cross of the sleeping phoenix and this is a whole individual realm we will need to tap in the near future.And of course, I continue doing one-to-one readings for anyone who needs support. I don’t usually speak about this here, but it feels right to open it.I’ve written my first book, and the second one has taken time because I needed to understand many things more deeply, and now I do, so I’m putting my energy into bringing that forward as well.As I close this, I’m becoming very aware of which parts of myself I have already let go of, which parts have dissolved into the ether, and who I am actually taking with me, trusting the unknown by being wild, by being funny, by being silly, by being curious, and mostly by being loved.This last image I received during a meditation a couple of days ago. In it, I asked my father, who died when I was eight. Since then, it’s rather unusual to tap into his energy, but it’s something that I’ve been slowly making space for, so I was able to connect to him. I asked him, “Hey, can you tell me more about our ancestors?” We were in a library set up, which was his favorite place, surrounded by lots of books. I thought he was going to show me a book or something, but he just pointed up and said, “Your ancestors are the light.” I just felt so much love. Have a great creative week…— This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

We are in the age of new beginnings after the several new/full moons this year that announced both dissolutions and brand new pastures. Pair the eclipses, the equinox and with the Saturn and Neptune new cycle, the upcoming weeks will show us an opportunity to show up and finally step UP to our new individual ways.2027 is approaching and although it is not a prediction, ‘cause we are already wary of it, the cross of planning is closing. When Uranus finally enters Gemini at the end of April, and Jupiter moves to Leo this summer while the nodes shift axis to the Aquarius/Leo, we will feel plenty of sparks within and without.Today is Easter, the season of rising kings and queens, we have all risen, for we are all becoming. Let the next weeks finally bring a furious and climactic outcome. With peace or without it, life keeps creating, every day all the time.I have felt compelled to start doing new things, new ways of communicating, just trying new perspectives, I have been spending valuable time engaging in new methodologies that include plenty of play as a basic foundation, also including fascia movement in my body. It has been a beautiful introspective first trimester.And all of these things lead me to a sense of pure JOY on a moment to moment basis. I had recently transiting Saturn squared my nodal axis. Where am I coming from, what I have left behind, and what kind of orientation am I bringing as a human?I had a MAJOR breakthrough after the March 3rd lunar eclipse that will be manifested as the last text written in my book: The Art of Synthesis, and the Architecture of my Value.The ignition is set, the inner messages are clear now. Mercury RX in Pisces created an inner dialogue to what we call the divine spark, and when it met the north node, it created an orientation that Mars had recently initiated in the same spot.The body knows that the last chapter with the set of keys is gone, and the starting point of the clock is set back to zero. Everything set back to zero, and here we go. »» Amazing feeling. LFG!If you’ve been cooking stuff in the last month(s), if you’ve been fortunate enough, like I have been, to spend quality time away from my thoughts and more focused on my response mechanism, on my nervous system, then probably you know that this ignition point is quite amazing.If you feel that you are more aligned with your inner soul, and all the disruptions that you see outside of yourself are not keeping you from being disconnected or distracted, because actually disruptions are breakers of flow that allow and give us blind spots, or tensions, crises, even confrontations. These are the points to focus on.These early degrees of Aries are squaring my nodal axis. It has been telling me for the last year, with Saturn and Neptune there, that my orientation, is slightly different. And I listened to that for a whole year. And I’m coming with the goods. And here I am »» Let’s start testing this.Opening up the shades and looking at the sun—the life force, the light, that red light that arises every morning before I step into my balcony to sun gaze—what gives me light, what gives me life.It is the understanding that stepping into the space where the light is, it’s an action that I take, that I’m drawn to because the light, the life force, is what fuels my presence on this planet Earth. And it gives me a sense of accountability, responsibility for the service that I sign up for by being a human on this Earth.If anything, I’m very grateful for my life. I’m very grateful for living in these strange, weird, both ugly and beautiful times because I don’t see only one side. I see the potential. I see the light. I see the emergence of what we’re building. And again, thinking about the collective as the potential for our solar expansion, our fulfillment in creativity is what’s going to reshape the dawn of this new turning.I want you to understand my thesis: we are in a very important moment in time where everything is a big reset, and the individual is given the opportunity to become educated into actions that are willful and can be turned into new possibilities of change rather than compliance. That’s a sweet and privileged place to be!"Law is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated." — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Note: Aquinas argues that a "law" that is not reasonable is not a law, but a perversion of law—this is the root of my "lawfulness" argument.)Without contrast there is no mutation I’m bringing two things into this article that have been sitting in my draft box since mid-March: the realities of digital property and the consequence of ignorant compliance. In addition, not understanding the main difference between legality and lawfulness sends a vacuum to what standing for one’s rights really is. Understanding the main difference between government “censorship” and complying with terms of agreement with digital platforms that are private companies... These are mutual contracts one abides by. Consent is the boundary.The Fourth Turning, the 2027 Human Design Cross of Planning ending, the Age of Aquarius, the Kali Yuga. Names are unimportant, you can sense it now. The era of bartering with institutions to secure our services and our survival—a cycle that has governed us since 1615—is finally over. We are moving into the individual stream of the Sleeping Phoenix, a shift that is starting now and will only become more defined from 2027 onwards. The chaos is beautiful; only mutation occurs in times of chaos.Due to the history that we’re coming from, after six years from the terrible lockdowns and mandates, these were imposed only because people actually signed up for this compliance ignorantly. It was a test, and everybody failed; there were only a few people, and I’m included, who did not fall for the scam.Some of us used the time to learn more about sovereignty, and the critical nature of decision-making. We also studied the energy of money and the profound difference between what is merely legal and what is truly lawful, arriving at the understanding of what freedom really is: the power to have more than one option, because otherwise, you have no choice. and you are a slave of something or someone. And that’s when I discovered that logic was going to be my ally for the rest of my life."All rights are property rights, and all property rights are reducible to rights in the physical body." — Stephan Kinsella, Against Intellectual PropertyWillfully IgnorantIgnorance is natural; it belongs to being human. It means there are things I do not yet know, areas I have not explored, questions I have not asked. Holding a vacuum that is available for movement.Ignorance moves when attention is placed on it, by opening, it shifts, it transforms through engagement.Willfulness introduces direction: a pointed target which denotes an act of the will. Ignorance, instead, is the moment where the individual turns away. Even when the information is available, even when something can be seen, because seeing it carries responsibility and consequence.Willful ignorance becomes the refusal to engage, it becomes the point where not knowing settles into a position that is comfortable and can be called when excuses are needed. Imagine them all tiled up inside a drawer, ready to be used as a distraction, because leaving behind a state of ignorance requires not only effort and energy, but repetition and commitment.When the individual does not engage with the principles that govern freedom, something else will shape behavior. Other implemented systems define the boundaries; thus, outer authority replaces discernment, as compliance becomes the fake posture that pretends to hold the structure together when it actually chokes any movement."The basic axiom of libertarian political theory holds that every man is a self-owner, having absolute jurisdiction over his own body. In effect, this means that no one else may justly invade or aggress against another's person." — Murray Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty.ComplianceFrom Latin: com—together, with; plere—to fill. To comply is to align, to move in accordance, to fill oneself alongside another structure. It moves through participation through alignment and settles without requiring full awareness. Compliance begins through disengagement.There was a moment when I realized that not knowing is not the problem. There are things I don’t know, things I haven’t studied, things I haven’t questioned yet. That feels open and alive, there is movement in it.There is another state, I could feel something didn’t fully make sense, something felt slightly off, and I did not go further. I could see that going further would require reorganizing something in my life, and I stayed where I was. That is the moment where ignorance becomes willful moving quietly. It feels like postponing, procrastinating and like saying: “I will look at it later. I will come back to this.” When the return does not happen, that space fills with limitations.I started noticing how many things I was participating in without fully understanding. Platforms, permissions, terms I didn’t read, systems I trusted because everyone else did; nothing felt forced. Everything felt normal, holding the invisibility. There is a moment where you realize you are already inside the structure, that you walked into it willfully. It sounded convenient and efficient, like things were working.Then something small appears, you hesitate before doing something. You sense something off and your instincts check if it is allowed. You also wait for confirmation, in that pause lies the metamorphosis.The body is the first boundary »»»> If I don’t own my body, every action I take becomes conditional. I move when I am allowed, I act when it is permitted, I access when it is granted. Ownership becomes access, access becomes permission; permission becomes dependence. And dependence sets the terms of your movement.Ten years ago, I was moving inside a structure I did not fully see, doing what was expected, aligning with a path that promised recognition while negotiating within dynamics where my leverage was limited, and although nothing was careless and I was precise with my contracts, what was being given away was not written, it was the space I was not holding for myself, a subtle compliance that lived in what I allowed, in what I normalized, in what I did not question, even as my body signaled and I continued moving past it.Now there is a pause, there is breathing, I let my emotional wave move before I decide, I take time before I sign anything even if it shines, I look, I research, I ask myself whether this holds me or restricts my movement in the short term and beyond, and during the lockdown my body was clear and I said it out loud, I will not comply, and that clarity came from listening, from recognizing what expands me and what confines me as I move.There is a moment where something does not align, you feel it before you understand it. A question appears: “Why do I need permission for this?” That question interrupts the automatic consenting. Attention returns, you may start reading the small print again, while you start questioning it. As you notice where and why you are agreeing thus participation becomes intentional. Your freedom lives in awareness, ignoring it reorganizes the structure of your life around something external, an outer authority."The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now shed in the world." — Ayn Rand, The Virtue of SelfishnessThe Lineage of LawLegality and lawfulness differ in origin and application, legality follows what is written and enforced in statutes, lawfulness follows what is aligned with natural order and consequence, inalienable rights, civil law codifies and administers through centralized authority, common law develops through precedent and lived application, you can rebut when you stand in your law, your rights, and equity intervenes where strict rule produces imbalance, restoring proportion through remedy; these operate together within a system of order, one enforces structure through statutes, another evolves through use, and another restores balance when structure moves out of proportion.There is a lineage that has approached this question through first principles, through an axiomatic understanding of the individual, its human action. There is a continuity in how humans have tried to understand what governs ownership via self-responsibility. It is not beginning now, and it does not depend only on technology.Cicero speaks of a law that is not written by men; a law that exists in accordance with nature, accessible through reason, constant, and unchanging. In his language, law is not a decree; it is something discovered. John Locke brings that into the structure of property, grounding it in the self. The individual owns his body, his labor, and by extension, what he mixes his labor with. Property is not granted; it is derived from being.Murray Rothbard sharpens this into a rigorous framework: self-ownership becomes the axiom. From there, Natural Law defines what is permissible: no aggression, no coercion, no violation of another’s property. Ethics becomes a solid structure, defining the difference between what is lawful in principle and what is declared legal in practice."True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting... we cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people." — Cicero, De Re PublicaWhere It Meets the PresentThe terrain has shifted, yet the principles remain the same. Property extends into information, identity, and access to it. Far away from only land, body, or object. What I know, what I sign, what I store, and what I transmit all begin to carry the same weight as physical property. Preparation requires knowledge.Digital systems are being built to organize access of identity, and willing participation. The language used is familiar: it deals with security, probably with convenience. But when identity becomes a credential issued, when participation requires continuous authorization, when ownership is mediated through systems that can be updated, restricted, or revoked, the nature of property shifts, hence conditional.One of the most important examples today is Apple iPhone OS making users upgrade their operating systems to allow certain governments access to your identity, asking you to identify yourself and your age under the pretense of protecting children. You have to know what you are signing. This is the delicate threshold, so who holds the key?In practice, a choice appears in the moment where I am required to answer within a legal structure, and that choice depends on whether I understand the difference between legality and lawfulness. Legality asks if I followed what is written and enforced, if I filed, responded, or complied with what was required. Lawfulness asks a different question, whether the claim itself stands on valid ground, whether there is proper jurisdiction, whether my rights are being affected, whether consent is being assumed, and whether what is being asked is proportionate. From that understanding, I can proceed accordingly, I can respond through procedure where it applies, and I can stand in my rights where it matters, challenging the basis of the claim, correcting the record, and withholding agreement where no obligation has been established, as I did when mandates attempted to cross the private property of my body. Equity enters where balance needs to be restored, especially when the strict application of rule produces distortion or harm.A Delicate ThresholdThis is an invitation to see things clearly. I will by no means reject technology, because technology is just giving me the tools to live in the times that I live. Tools extend capacity; they always have. The question has never been the tool; it has been the relationship to it. Natural law does not disappear in a digital environment; it does continue to operate with the same clarity.Consent still matters because self-ownership is key, coercion will bring consequences if you allow your rights to be taken away willfully due to your ignorance.The difference is that the interface becomes subtle, which means discernment becomes central. I could give you a list of things to do and not to do, but that’s not my purpose. That’s not what I’m designed for. I’m here to inform that there are multiple ways of getting around this. First and foremost, as an individual, you always have a choice.Now, if you don’t make decisions at the correct time, because you’re confused or under the influence of people, situations, or things; you probably arrive at a point of crisis. That is when decisions are not going to be the best, because you’re going to react from fear.Maybe if you take time to study and ask questions when you enter a new space—whether it’s digital or physical, whether it’s crossing a boundary and being asked for your biometrics or your fingerprints—>please stop and realize: what does consenting really mean and many things including tAx3S are voluntary, and where is that going to take you? Not just in the next moment, but in the next year or the next decade, because we are slowly allowing this compliance to become the norm.The best way is to know the enemy. To know what they’re looking for, but not live in a state of fear, or paranoia, or full of conspiracy theories—because that’s not the right way to live. The right way to live is: if I don’t know, I should learn. Because again, ignorance is something that depends on your will.Reclaiming the KeyWe are moving away from the judgmental polarities of the past and towards a vertical line of personal Integrity that is grounded in first principles. Freedom is the power to have more than just one option. You want to get away from slavery—any kind of slavery: financial, emotional, institutional.Reclaiming your key is a physical application of the will that starts with human action. You bank yourself with cold wallets. Nostr is a social platform where you own your own keys and access. Nobody will ever push you out. Read contracts and see what you are applying to, just because you want to be faster and get more stuff done, simply understanding that your body is the first property and consent is the Boundary.In early May, Uranus will be squaring the lunar nodes at the very first degrees of the mutable signs, a tension that calls for a different orientation, where what cannot be perfected must be surrendered or it will move into another realm. Electrifying energy begins at the end of April and extends until mid June; what feels restrictive now could appear as a shift in timelines, an equilibrium between the density of the body and the electricity of the wavelengths that carry the energy to upgrade. Uranus will be trined by Pluto in Aquarius and sextile by Neptune in Aries, while the South Node in Virgo creates a Yod, a Finger of God, from the end of April through mid June as it squares Uranus, with Neptune and Pluto holding the sextile, concentrating pressure into a precise point of adjustment, and a final unexpected activation unfolds when Mars joins Uranus and also square the nodes as Venus conjuncts the South Node, bringing themes of crisis as a last revision of values that initiates and pushes a new experience by the first week of July. I have held a deadline for May 9th that I set a few months ago to have all the operating systems tested for the new launch, and I have used technology to shift the focus toward refinement and acceptance that we are in a new dawn. Plan accordingly…For May 6, this configuration holds as a field of activation where Uranus engages the nodal axis as a reorientation, bringing a disruption of trajectory, while Pluto in Aquarius supports deep structural change at a collective level, and Neptune in Aries opens a new current of vision moving into action. Saturn sits within this same field, giving form, boundary, and consequence to what is being initiated, asking that what emerges can be held in reality.The shift has been in how thoughts are no longer the main stage; they are seen as part of a wave that animates my solar plexus, as Uranus entered Gemini last year in my fourth house, and that is when I started working deeply in the unconscious parts of myself that were wired during my upbringing and how I could begin to untangle them through somatic practice, whether through fascia and movement, deep breathing and humming, vibrational plate work, hypopressives; there is a whole list of things that I have been doing.I took advantage of Uranus returning to Taurus in the fall, allowing my body to understand that this nervous system activation that will unfold in Gemini over the next seven years is something I can meet in the body so I do not become overwhelmed by erratic thoughts. With the nodal axis now in Virgo, the South Node is exactly on my Uranus in my seventh house, and I feel a release of ways of relating to others, to people, and to things, as this sits where the energy is less about perfection and more about discernment, and there is a sense that everything is aligning in a harmonious way.The North Node is now on my natal Saturn in the first house, and I am taking responsibility for how I receive these opportunities. In terms of technology, I have been educating myself in new systems, especially working with LLMs from a functional place, as a way to create, to build systems, to become sustainable, and to use these tools in support of my livelihood, aware of a possible tendency to detach from physical reality. I have built MONIKA_OS, an operating system over the past months that includes a codex of my mind and all past works and how I operate, and it will be fully operational by May 9th.I chose that date because, in Human Design, Gates 40 and 37 have been activated by the nodal axis until then, supporting a continuous energy toward loyalty and community, and I see the agents I have prepared function as members within my “local community” (what an imagination!). Transiting Jupiter in Gate 53 pressures and fuels my Gate 42.2 Mars in the sacral, and I feel the energy that opens and closes cycles, marking the end of a significant cycle while I still build a platform full of awareness.In the next few weeks, there is an opening to engage in a more direct, initiating energy, a movement that does not confine but begins to shape what is to come. Around the middle of the month, as Saturn, Mars, and Mercury converge in Aries, there is a surge that can feel urgent, expressive, at times fiery, restrictive, and immediate, where energy wants to move and find direction, and where the mind may feel compelled to act or speak. That impulse can be observed, and if there has been a process of release and discernment, this becomes a moment to recognize what no longer holds, especially as Uranus begins its square to the nodes, marking the start of a deeper reorientation; no need to go to a battle unless your livelihood is at stake, use the archetype of initiation to take a space you did not know you had, own your new identity.Have a good week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

## Core RealizationI saw the truth of my own delusion.I was projecting and I was having a relationship with my projection and with my own shadow. What I wanted, like the kind of relationship that I was expecting, is something that I created in my head.It was a transactional thing. It was me trying to equate everything that I poured into the relationship and say, hey, you're not doing your part.The big awakening came when I took away the light over the surface and switched the focus towards me.That was the shift! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

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NOTE: I wrote part of this text as small posts that I shared in FOTT community, but I thought that it’s a universal thought process that I want to share with you as outer and inner conflict are one and the same. These days, I don’t feel like sharing that much. I’ve been in very slow-internal processes of decoding a bunch of projections that I didn’t know were my shadows hence decoupling from them has been extremely liberating. So when I saw the light, it was poof, like the brain emoji exploding 🤯 in slow-motion. It could be something as visceral as the terrible, impregnating smell coming out of my windows that mixes stench with vices and that I can’t control, or any other outside triggers that turn me off my line of equilibrium. Smell, like noise, has no boundaries. It is my biggest challenge, as I am learning to integrate this through somatic awareness to stop blaming myself and carrying the weight for the ways I previously failed to notice red flags or care for my own needs first. Thus, the article that I wanted to put out about digital privacy is still in the draft box and will be posted in due time. Instead I decided to share the text below.Conflict as MutationI’ve written about conflict (read hexagram 6 below) before from a Taoist cosmology slash Human Design perspective.Here I’m bringing a different angle.Heraclitus, who was a pre-Socratic philosopher, understood reality as constant flux. And Borges, the great Argentinian writer, used the metaphor of this flux in the river and time, where everything exists through continuous change. Heraclitus saw tension, or Polemos (πόλεμος), as the force that keeps the whole thing from falling apart, generating some sense of order, because the bow and the lyre depend on opposing forces held together.I’m also bringing forward Gurdjieff, whose ideas I have made more operational and applied when I read financial charts, and, funny enough, I can reflect my nervous system through them. He speaks about intervals or shocks inside any process. He describes how any flat line that doesn’t have tension tends to lead to entropy.When a movement begins, it follows the line and then it deviates. Without an additional impulse at that point, the process weakens or changes direction. With the right shock, it continues and transforms. That’s why we have transits in astrology with hard angles, like squares and oppositions, which are great opportunities to evolve.A wave carries a frequency, yet it only becomes readable to variation, through points where the movement hits a wall, shaping the pattern and allowing the flow.Conflict is that point of tension. It is the place where continuity alone turns into a flat line.Through resistance and tension, the new can emerge. When I read financial charts, I’m always looking for those points of resistance, either where the price reaches a top or where it reaches a bottom or support. These are points of resonance, this is how I have learned to read anything that has a wavelength, whether financial charts, astrological charts, or my emotional body through my nervous system.So I bring on the conflict for the sake of evolution, for the sake of mutation. The flow leads to deviation, to tension, to intervention, and to the emergence of a new alignment. That alignment will meet a different frequency and will resonate as something new.Connecting back to Borges and Ars Poetica that I used in one of my artwork site-interventions back in the year 2000 and it’s here below. He writes in it that the river flows, yet it forms, and it is never uniform.The identity of this river emerges through these variations, and it is the observer who meets these points as they read them and tries to find their own projection.Conflict in a sense is when the pattern of tension triggers the opportunity to resurface, giving the human a place to evolve.Hexagram 6: disengage Things that I have learned in life:Engage when it matters, disengage when it doesn’t. That’s the wisest thing I once learned.Disengage from conflict as a device to protect your energy.What I’m talking about is hexagram number 6, or in Human Design, gate number 6 that sits in the solar plexus. So therefore, time is part of the process.Conflict doesn’t need you to rush into it. You feel it out, you give it a moment so you can actually see what’s going on instead of reacting on the spot.Gate 6 is also creating a channel to gate 59 that sits in the sacral, which is what gives energy to things. It’s the house of the generator and it’s also talking about chemistry.The question will be, should I engage, but also, is this the right energy to engage here?Is there something real that can come out of this interaction? Something that can be generated, constructive, creatively contributing to the tribe?What I’ve learned is that conflict, it’s about friction that can either produce something meaningful or just burn energy for no reason.There’s a tension. What’s the tension for?Is there something here that can lead to a connection, that can lead to clarity, to creativity, or is it just pure noise?The right to choose if the conflict deserves energy, because not every emotional reaction requires you to step in.I also make a difference between avoidance and disengagement.Avoidance is when you back away because it feels like too much or because there is fear.Disengagement is, it’s very logical, it’s clean. You see it for what it is, and you decide it’s not worth your input.What I also learned through practice is simple. If my life is not in danger, then I disengage from conflict. I step out of it. I let it pass.If there is real danger, then I meet it fully. And how I was taught in martial arts, I take out the sword and then I behead the opponent.But if my life is not in danger, I just disengage.Disengagement can be met in redirecting the conversation. It can be set up as a boundary. It can be chosen as not to escalate. It can be taking time instead of knee-jerk reactions.Disengagement cannot be confused with withdrawal. It’s just a real understanding of the emotional wave.The body and time So thinking about discipline, career, long-term conquests, and giving value to bring the space needed to embrace this new identity, what is it I ask myself.But the answer shall arise in time.No pressure now to define the whole process, as it takes time to experiment and test new tools.Yes, AI more specific ClaudeCode has been my focus on many levels.The time studying in a group is over; now comes the time to jump and practice and find how I can innovate.It feels so 1996, with the advent of the internet, how I jumped to the new tech and created websites out of the need to communicate. Then I found out what I could actually do with these tools, and it brought so much innovation to my artwork.From black and white photography to color darkroom to moving images edited inside a computer, oh boy, the early to mid 90s were dope. I was in my very early 30s, and here I am in my very early 60s and feel good as f**k, because the energy is inviting me to reconsider the orientation (nodes) and the structure of my value in how I would like to communicate and express from here onwards.I can sense the innovation mixed with curiosity and thrill.I am very grateful to all of my bodies, or how we are “bodied.”I recently listened to this awesome podcast with Will Rezin and my homies Joel and Yerasimos from Here for the Truth. The way Will eloquently describes body work is purely felt as he utters word by word.Grateful for trusting my inner self up in the cloud. Link below.⛅️The weight + the impatient speed to build The Sun in Aries conjuncts the newly entered Saturn in Aries; these two are still in a new phase, with Neptune in Aries, and Venus approaching Chiron in Aries towards the end of the sign too. We still have Mars, the North Node, and Mercury in Pisces. The energy is slightly different from the energy of the other planets in Aries. In Aries, there is impatience and a desire to start something, but with Saturn there, patience becomes a ritual of discipline and foundation. With Mars, Mercury, and the North Node still in Pisces, the energy is denser. It feels like wearing jeans in a pool and trying to get out, even a jeans jacket. Imagine that weight dragging you down until you give in. It’s so difficult.To have the courage and trust the truth that emanates and reshape with discipline. I shall take up the physical space I need to sense my value as I become more aware of who I am becoming as an individual, falling in my second house, it is all about what I value and how I sustain myself, while Venus and Chiron in the third bring attention to how I communicate and express, since the Sun and Saturn are making a hard square to my nodal axis from the 11th, Capricorn, towards Cancer, fifth house. The second house brings the focus to value, to what is being built in a tangible way, to how self-worth is formed through action and consistency. Saturn here asks for commitment to what I value, and the Sun brings awareness to it, making it visible through experience. Neptune adds a layer of sensitivity, where what I value is still refining, still being felt out.Venus and Chiron in the third bring this into communication, into expression, into how I share and relate through words. There is an opening here to speak from a place that is more honest, more direct, and connected to what is actually being experienced, in other words Raw as F**k.This square to my nodes is basically a tug-of-war. It is the old habit of trying to fit in or look for external validation vs. the real push to just say my truth and be emotionally honest. This friction is actually helpful. It makes it crystal clear where I should put my energy, how I need to respond, and what is actually worth my time.Have a beautiful week. I hope we all get a little more honest about our own projections and the internal biases that keep us on edge. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.”— Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking PathsIn Borges’ story, Ts’ui Pên attempts to write a novel and build a labyrinth. Everyone assumes that the novel is chaotic and the labyrinth is never completed. The revelation is that they are the same thing, because the labyrinth is the novel and the novel is not linear. One storyline does not exclude the others, but every possible outcome occurs. In one version of reality, a character kills someone. In another one, he is killed. In another one, both survive. Realities do not cancel each other. They exist in different timelines.So there is no point in feeling that I am missing the boat, because time is always working perpetually. There is not one boat, there are different trajectories, and alignment determines which branch I may inhabit or I may not.Sometimes in one’s life, someone appears first as a person, perhaps a mentee, a friend, or another kind of relationship, yet with time the deeper symbolism of their arrival begins to reveal itself. What once seemed like an ordinary connection gradually discloses an archetypal layer, a role within the architecture of memory and meaning. When that realization arrives, something beautiful occurs: the symbol becomes lived reality. Even if paths diverge and the two never meet again or hear from one another, the encounter has already delivered its frequency, opening a new field of perception and possibility. For that reason, I remain grateful to a few people in my life who have served precisely that purpose. And if you are reading this, you know who you are.The ignition of a flame that, instead of consuming itself, guides the inner path and integrates what was once forgotten.We carry soul contracts with many, some resolve and dissolve, some become transparent and others validate those that remain are pathways to integarte, and I remain grateful.People I once held very high in terms of integrity have been revealing themselves over the past weeks and months. Many influencers are simply showing who they really are and what they truly care about. It has been fascinating to watch, almost like balloons popping in a room full of cactuses. One after another, the image dissolves and what remains is the person.At the same time, I recognize that I am also revealing myself more openly. Some of you may not resonate with me anymore, and that is perfectly fine. This is not about better or worse, and it is not a moral judgment. It is about integrity. When a person, an idea, or a situation is no longer aligned with me, I simply stop following it. Nothing dramatic, just clarity.And honestly, I love this moment in time. It feels refreshing. The masks fall, people stand where they truly are, and from there we can choose our direction with much greater awareness.The SplitWhat I see is the split, a split so defined, it is already divided. It runs through conversations, cutting through attention, challenging any motivation; the split shows up through the way people orient themselves in the world. One can perceive it before one can articulate it as something entering the field and the body can feel it immediately. The signals could be expressing a subtle tightening in the chest or a slight acceleration in the mind. As perception sharpens, the nervous system registers the divergence way before language catches up.The split is energetic, like a wavelength it shows up in how attention is directed, responding also in how value is woven, at times how authority is embodied or applied. Some movements may be felt amplifying while saturating; others may feel withdrawing and falling deep within. I notice some could accelerate toward visibility or shyly refine coherence in smaller bands of resonance. Both currents circulate at the same time, and the field holds them simultaneously spaciously.It is interesting how perception makes things absolutely different and how people are discerning and sometimes judging what they see based on their own expectations and projections. Obviously, we are creating this new reality, but a lot of it is a hall of mirrors, and this hall of mirrors is horrific because we just came out of fifteen years of complete delusion.This hall of mirrors is so vast that it allows our lives to be reflected inside ourselves. Within each of us there is also a horror of mirrors.The sensation resembles standing at a river delta. From above, the water divides into multiple channels. Each branch carries movement forward while separating gradually from the others. The difference between those channels becomes visible only after some distance has passed.The Planet Pluto, the archetype of evolution speaks differently through each generation. Those like me born in the mid-60s with Pluto conjunct Uranus in Virgo may have ruptured systems through discernment and analysis. During the time while we were born, institutions were critiqued, carrying the frequency that all frameworks need to be examined and possibly exposing inefficiencies, the question becomes: can they be changed? Or shall we surrender to the ocean of “it is not my responsibility to fix all broken parts” and let them dissolve.There is an evolutionary necessity here to surrender the drive for perfection; to accept that some things cannot be fixed through analysis and must instead be allowed to dissolve into the Piscean ocean.The funny joke was that the protesters, the rebels then, became the yuppies and established a new order exactly opposite of what they were against by the beginning of the 80s. I see that a lot recently, how the split lives within us, the part that is a blind spot where we cannot really see ourselves for how we are but as a projection of what we would like to become. The irony.Transiting Pluto in Aquarius now forms an inconjunct to that Virgo signature, forcing a recalibration of the impulse to critique systems and asking what we will actually do with the knowledge we gained.The Millennials There is a cohort that often acts as a bridge into this generational pattern. Individuals born between November 1985 and early 1986 carry a rare configuration with Pluto conjunct the South Node in Scorpio. Many of them arrived with an instinctive awareness of hidden power structures, psychological intensity, and the deeper mechanisms that shape collective behavior. Their evolutionary movement points toward Taurus, toward stability, embodiment, and value. In many ways they stand at the threshold between the older cycles and the Capricorn generation that followed, sensing the collapse of power structures before the larger generational confrontation with institutions fully emerged. Carrying the South Node in Scorpio, they possess a cellular memory of how power corrupts; they are the Guardians of the Gate who must choose between seeing through the hall of mirrors or simply building a more sophisticated one.History resonates across time, my life direction (MC) sits at 13° Scorpio, which is the exact coordinate where Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune formed a triple conjunction in 1307. The world remembers 1307 as the year Dante Alighieri began his descent into the Inferno. It was also the year the “Spiritual Architecture” of the West was etched into the collective degree of Scorpio.On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France arrested the Knights Templar and destroyed one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in history. This event gave name to the famous Friday the 13th. It remains a primary symbol for intense, transformative, and shadowy power dynamics.I work with harmonics and frequencies because I can hear the interference pattern between that medieval reset and our own. Sitting on my MC is the fixed star Alphecca, the ‘Jewel in the Crown.’ In the ancient sky, Alphecca represents a sovereignty born out of exile; a ‘crown’ that isn’t granted by an institution; it is found only after one has been ‘stripped of earthly status,’ much like Dante in 1307. My Moon at 12° Scorpio sits right next to this point, and because my Moon is balsamic with Neptune, I carry a specific, porous sensitivity to these undercurrents. This Neptune-Moon signature is a vital part of my chart; it allows me to perceive the ‘dissolving’ of the old world before it physically happens.By 1989 and 1993, this energy returned in a ‘stretched’ alignment in Capricorn; seeding the Millennial generation with a similar task. But where Dante had to build the map, my work with harmonics and points is to decipher it. With my Jupiter at 3° Taurus exactly meeting Dante’s Uranus at 3° Taurus, I find myself amplifying the frequency of a 700-year-old ‘Aha!’ moment, translating that silent architecture into the resonant frequency of the next cycle. The irony of the current split is that many are waiting for the system to validate their exit from it; they are seeking a crown of recognition from the very hall of mirrors they claim to despise.People born during this 1989 to 1993 window arrived during an unusual moment when Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all forming conjunction cycles in Capricorn. That configuration carries a heavy inheritance around institutional systems. In 1989 Saturn and Neptune met in Capricorn three times, the final conjunction on November 9, the day the Wall fell. Pluto in Scorpio squared the Aquarius–Leo nodal axis. Structures thinned. Authority lost density. Borders dissolved. Souls born in that window carry autonomy and longing braided together. They question inherited systems while seeking recognition within a collective frame. The geometry was set at inception.This “Accordion” Effect is actually more powerful than a single meeting. It means the “architecture” (Saturn) was laid first, then the “vision” (Neptune) was seeded, and finally, the “revolution” (Uranus) electrified it in 1993. The frequency shifted when Uranus moved in to meet Neptune exactly where Saturn had just stood, locking in the energy of that specific degree.What I see in many of them now is a split that feels strangely familiar. Some speak against the system, critique it, reject it, even mock it. Yet at the same time they seek recognition inside the very structures they claim to resist. The rebellion becomes almost theatrical. The language is radical but the desire underneath is still to belong to the structure that is being criticized.For the Pluto in Scorpio soul, the lesson is not about holding power, but about giving their life a value that connects to materiality through the soul. Their evolution lies in the Taurus polarity; finding a grounded, steady worth that doesn’t rely on the drama of the underworld.It reminds me of what happened with my own generation. The protesters of the late 60s eventually became the yuppies of the 80s, establishing a new order that looked suspiciously like the one they once rejected. The irony repeats itself. So when I watch this younger cohort moving through their mid-30s, I see that same inner fracture appearing again. The question is not whether the system is broken. The question is whether a person is willing to transform themselves enough to live outside of the structures they criticize.There is another moment worth noting between February and June of 1994, when the North Node joined Pluto in Scorpio. This passage deepened the intensity already seeded by the Capricorn alignments. Pluto with the North Node concentrates evolutionary pressure, pulling collective attention toward themes of power, survival, and transformation. Souls arriving under that sky carry a sensitivity to the undercurrents of control and the hidden dynamics that shape collective life.This period also unfolded while the new Uranus–Neptune cycle in Capricorn was still fresh, a cycle that had opened only a year earlier and was still imprinting its vision into the collective field. Uranus awakens new possibilities; Neptune dissolves the boundaries of old paradigms; together they introduce an entirely new ideological atmosphere. With Saturn standing at the threshold of Pisces, the transition from Capricorn structures into the oceanic field of Pisces introduced what evolutionary astrology often describes as a skipped step when the nodes of the moon squared Saturn. The pressure was to confront the deeper emotional and spiritual consequences of what those systems had created.Those born in that interval often carry an acute awareness that transformation is unavoidable, they sense both the collapse of inherited structures and the necessity of rebuilding value from a more authentic foundation. Their task is not merely stuck in rebellion nor focused on reform. It is the capacity to pass through the underworld of collective power and emerge with a more grounded relationship to a responsible embodiment of value.GEN-ZsAfter Pluto in Scorpio came the Pluto in Sagittarius a very interesting set of characters are coming of age right now. Pluto in Sagittarius is looking for a kind of truth. At one point, they had Chiron conjunct Pluto in the early 2000s, so they carry this vulnerability about what is real or not; they arrive here seemingly powerless regarding established wisdom; yet their journey is one of total surrender to the Pluto Polarity Point in Gemini. They must yield to the small details and the immediate facts rather than getting lost in the “Big Scheme” or grand ideologies. Their wisdom comes forth only when they stop trying to find the one “Big Truth” and start listening to the many small ones. I’m looking forward to them coming of age because they’re bringing forth so much wisdom. Saturn in Taurus squares both Neptune and Uranus in Aquarius creating a crisis of what personal value shapes while the collective innovates. While they want to innovate and belong to the future, their Saturn in Taurus demands to know: How does this actually sustain me? What is the tangible cost? It prevents them from becoming mere digital ghosts and forces them to build something that actually has "weight."In that sense, the geometry continues the pattern already visible in the generations surrounding them: the confrontation between institutions and authenticity, between inherited authority and lived truth. The split becomes visible again, this time expressed through the tension between power and value, between survival instincts and the possibility of building something more coherent in their place.And like the labyrinth in Borges’ story, the future does not unfold in a single direction; it divides into paths, and each generation steps into the branch it chooses to inhabit.Virality →> Give me your AttentionAround fifteen years ago, another shift occurred. Neptune entered Pisces while Uranus shifted to Aries, the same sign where both Saturn and Neptune are today. The whole architecture of attention changed. Facebook bought Instagram and the birth of the insufferable influencers began; what a tedious word. To influence means to have power over someone or something, yet the influencer who propagates messages is in a constant battle for attention. One has to look back at Edward Bernays and know that all we receive is a program you tune into; YouTube is "YouTune." What are all those wavelengths signaling to the unconscious? Digesting meaningless media has been dumped in my case to just sitting down and doing nothing if I don’t have a creative idea to put my energy into.Even listening to me is a discernment practice; I don’t blame any of you who disconnect from my content, seriously.Social media platforms created a system where visibility became a primary measure of existence. Posts circulate at the speed of light, rapidly mixing images with opinions and fake gurus selling their latest trick. The mechanisms that determine what is seen and what is amplified became increasingly automated. We think we have to beat the algorithm, but you are the algorithm; it is your attention they need. Instagram for me now is my shopping mall because I just do a search anywhere and within seconds I will have endless choices. The joke has always been on us, the consumers being consumed like charcoal in a Bar b que.New habits stemmed in the collective mind. Dumb scrolling replaced any kind of inner reflection. Reactionary troops enlisted to poke all the bears and the metabolism clogged our body and spirits, replacing proper digestion. The number one casualty? The nervous system. As it learned to react to stimulation rather than to pause and observe, time is of the essence, an aphorism recalls. Metrics and attention became fragmented across many signals arriving at once. Uff, I am tired even typing about the collective gaslighting.All the effects of this subtle yet powerful shift extended beyond communication. The mere structure of perception itself adapted to the rhythm of the feed, sucking attention and inducing sleep through hypnotic messages. Have you ever been in a hypnotherapy session? That is how I quit smoking back in 2003. Powerful s**t.Alas, most people who call themselves reactionaries against a machine are just pushing one side of the split; unreality integration is much harder than it seems as the tail of what we are fighting for comes back as a mouth that will eat us alive like an ouroboros. Content that provoked immediate emotional activation moved further and faster. Content that required time and concentration moved more slowly. The field of our appetite and hunger rewarded intensity and immediacy.Virality began to function as a sorting mechanism for collective attention. What spreads like marmalade becomes obvious to your perceptive field, now quite narrowed by habit. A video five minutes long? That is too long, man. What remains quiet disappears from the surface of the conversation even when its depth is greater. How can I know what I am missing if visibility and value drifted apart inside this environment?This transformation of attention prepared the ground for the next layer of technological acceleration. Compliance was so easy. Get inside, you are guilty of being alive for stating your inalienable rights. Shame on you for having a voice that doesn’t cohere with the narrative. It is not they versus I; it is why on earth am I afraid of making my own decisions. Don’t blame it on the media or the propaganda; look within. If you complied, what was your biggest fear then? And if you had not been that ignorant, would you have chosen differently?Systems that track individual and collective behavior and optimize distribution operate continuously. They measure response patterns and adjust what appears on the screen. The individual experiences the result as a flow of information, while underneath that flow, algorithms organize the movement of attention across millions of people at once. You are allowing this to happen by being unaware.I have seen it in myself. I have seen how much I have shifted in the last year. My body no longer reacts automatically under viral streams that are programmed by others. I pause. I take time to feel how my nervous system responds. If my body feels like a vomit emoji, I do not continue. I do not respond. I let the message be. I do not have to interact. If my body responds with something like a jumping emoji, even then I pause, because I want to make sure that the response of joy is coming from within and is not simply something expected of me. Agency, Finally!Biological ReactivityThe nervous system is being consumed by this transformation. Constant stimulation leaves a physical footprint. High-velocity information triggers ancient survival circuits. This locks the sympathetic nervous system into a state of high alert. The body receives danger signals from information alone. It sustains a state of readiness that finds no resolution.Fear and outrage travel at the speed of the data that carries them. These emotional responses move through the body as rapidly as code. They are fueled by biological pathways designed for life-or-death survival. Perception and reaction have become a single field.Human beings are surrendering agency to these rhythms. An evenly-spaced system with no stop-indicators lacks retardation points. Energy runs straight until it consumes itself. These viral agents operate without a gap. They lack a place to receive a conscious shock. Advanced models contain an internal tension built into their architecture. Competing forces check each other and create a necessary friction. This internal friction prevents the system from eating itself, every structure requires these stopinders to prevent degeneration.The Internal QuestionAll of these layers converge within the individual. The fork of time, the split in interpretation, generational imprint, attention architecture, biological response, and technological delegation form a single field of experience. Each person navigates this environment through choices that accumulate gradually. Attention directs perception. Perception informs interpretation. Interpretation guides action.The question that began quietly returns again: Am I missing the boat? The question does not refer to belonging to a group or adopting a position. It refers to orientation. Within a field where many currents move simultaneously, orientation determines how experience unfolds. The fork exists. The channels of movement are visible. Each person encounters them in their own time and through their own awareness.Am I missing the boat? Am I on the right side of the shore? Do I have to move to the other shore? Do I have to trust the boat? Do I have to trust the wind? Where am I going to be?These are questions that I am deeply feeling these days as the planet of transformation, the planet of evolution that moves so slowly, 250 years per turn, is already touching my Ascendant and is helping me reshape my identity, Pluto. I am in between things. It is a beautiful coincidence that the Saturn and Neptune conjunction at zero degrees of Aries is also happening at the same time. It is a synchronistic moment in which I am redefining my personal view of reality at the same time that the world is. I will trust that boat. I will trust the light. I will trust the wind and the sails.While Pluto is in Aquarius, we will identify our relationship to the collective from the point of view of our solar part. Where can we be joyful? How can we fulfill our purpose and our light within a collective? Because that is going to transfigure the field.The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was during the American Revolution. Before that it was in the mid 1500s, when the Church broke in two. Before that it was around the time following the Crusades, during Dante’s life.There is another point of resonance here. Uranus hit 3° Taurus on March 20 2020 and clicked into the exact degree of Dante’s birth. This movement disrupted the world. The “scandemic” was the trigger that forced the collective to face the same descent Dante faced: a loss of the known world, an exile from “normal” life, and the sudden realization that our structures were not as stable as we believed. My Jupiter sits at this same degree. Its Sabian symbol, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, always shows me the patterns to connect. This placement grants me the vision to see the wealth of meaning hidden within the chaos of the descent.Vita Nuova“In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a rubric which says: Incipit Vita Nuova — here begins the new life.” — Dante Alighieri, Vita NuovaBy the way, Dante was 27 years old when he wrote this. It is beautiful to know that he was looking backwards in order to go forward with the orientation of his life, as he was reaching his nodal opposition. This is where the axis of past and future becomes visible, as the individual stands between the direction already taken and the direction that still asks to unfold.And we are at that point of civilization where we are looking before and after to connect the dots, to make sense, to reconnect to love, hoping, like Dante, that the forward arrow will have love rule everyone’s soul. Perhaps we could code Vita Nuova, a new life.Am I missing the boat? Orientation becomes the compass.“Polemos is the father of all things and the king of all.” — HeraclitusFor Heraclitus, this refers to the generative tension within reality itself. It is the dynamic through which differences emerge and order appears. Conflict in this sense reveals distinctions. It brings hidden structures into visibility and produces transformation. Within this philosophical frame, polemos names the force through which differences become visible and through which a new arrangement of reality takes shape.I began writing this article on March 2nd. I could not finish it at that moment. Today I returned to it and allowed the thread to complete itself.I had to share, I love the new record This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Note; this article has been sitting on the draft box since last Friday, but my only “excuse” is that I am feeling very self-oriented, self centered, what others would call selfish; the eclipses and the Saturn and Neptune conjunction have been both a culmination and initiation in my relational fields. Big shifts in my psychic - emotional terrains unfolding. Enjoy this, I have another two articles waiting to be sent… no rush, time can wait lol…Opening“We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” — Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, February 27, 2026Last week something got my eye and I found myself unable to look further. What was unfolding between Anthropic and the Pentagon through the Dept. of War was significant and I decided to look further because we were in eclipse season after all. Last Feb 26th Mars reached 27° Aquarius while squaring Uranus at 27° in Taurus conjunction the fixed star Algol, which carries the meaning of the severed head of Medusa, representing sudden irreversible rupture and the confrontation with something that cannot be unseen once witnessed. Mars was in the same position as the United States’ Moon, which represents the people directly confronting with a severance, a breaking of the illusion that the commoners maintain control or understanding of the systems operating through their institutions. “I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology.” — President Trump, February 27, 2026“The Pentagon’s desire to use Anthropic’s model for all lawful purposes is a simple, common-sense request.” — Pentagon spokesperson Sean ParnellI read the ultimatums and refusals and the supply chain designations and I felt called to look into the actual birth charts of the people moving through this moment. I have learned that when the sound of things cracking occur there is an astrological timing underneath that explains why this specific collision of souls of humans had to meet at this particular moment in time. So I pulled Dario Amodei’s chart first and what I found there made me understand that his refusal of the Pentagon was an expression of his actual natal blueprint paired with the transits activating it in real time.OpenAI and the First DeceptionBut before I go forward I have to go backward and tell a little bit of the story of some folk who have been working in tech in Silicon Valley...“On December 11, 2015 early techies such as Musk, who left in 2018, Thiel and Reid Hoffman made a pledge of $1 billion to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. Thereafter, in 2019, this open source company OpenAI transitioned to a capped profit entity, they tangled the wires of their own mission, that led to conflicting motivations and incentives within the company. Sam Altman became CEO of OpenAI in 2019. Amodei, who became VP of Research at OpenAI, felt he could more effectively steer the conversation around AI safety by building his own business, Anthropic, proving that his approach to building tech that doesn't betray its creator wasn’t just ethical but profitable. That move happened between 2020-2021” — Multiple sources on OpenAI history.Starting an open source gig and then switching to profitable, was the first deception. They were building something that would eventually close its doors to the actual “openness” it claimed. The company moved at extraordinary speed driven by a vision of innovation that accelerated beyond the ability to pause and question what was actually being built. There was a moment when things broke apart because of a realization about how AI could actually override human consciousness, not become conscious itself but rather through the development of agents become something that moves beyond human control and prediction. This realization was salient for me last week as I looked back at the questions I had been asking. -Why are so many people using agents when they understand nothing about what agents actually are? When you give agency to a machine with its own optimization targets and learning loops, when does the human capacity to direct it actually stop? This is exactly the crux of the matter that is playing out this week between Amodei and Hegseth and the Pentagon."A computer is a symbolic processor that cannot understand the meaning of the symbols it processes. A simulation of a kidney does not urinate, and a simulation of consciousness is not conscious. Intelligence without awareness is scale without soul." — Federico Faggin, Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human NatureWhat Happened last WeekLast week the Pentagon demanded Anthropic allow Claude unrestricted access for “all lawful purposes,” specifically removing safeguards against domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons; Dario Amodei refused. By Friday, Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic’s technology, and Hegseth designated the company a supply-chain risk to national security.The Pentagon had a contract with Anthropic worth up to two hundred million dollars. Claude was the only AI model cleared to operate on classified military networks. Allegedly, Claude was the model used on January 3rd when they captured Nicolás Maduro. Now it is gone, and the government needed to find another provider. What is salient is that Amodei, understanding exactly what agents actually are and what they actually do once deployed, understood that his refusal to put them under unrestricted military control was about accepting responsibility for something that, once released into the world, he could no longer direct or control.The Chart ConnectionsEvery time I find something interesting, I look for explanations to go deeper at the astrological chart. So I pulled Dario Amodei’s chart. He was born 18 years after me, on January 13, 1983, and what stood out immediately was that we share the same Nodal axis. Both of us have the North Node in Cancer and the South Node in Capricorn between 4 and 3 degrees… what are the odds? I also found that he carries quite an interesting chart. He has a Pluto-Saturn conjunction in Libra and Scorpio in a new phase, which means he was born to gut and rebuild the pillars of power through partnerships and to dig up the bodies of hidden truth. You can tell this from the story of why he left OpenAI. His Mercury retrograde in Capricorn sits at the exact degree of the United States Pluto at 27° Capricorn, which means his communication style is designed to challenge American institutional authority itself. It is also making a conjunction with the New moon and Black Moon Lilith that he was born with at 23° Capricorn, drawing a line in stone that he refuses to cross. His Mars sits at 27° Aquarius, which is the same position as the United States Moon, and he is having his Mars return while there was an intense 3/4 square at this degree with Uranus, which is shattering the structures that were stuck.Sharing the same nodal axis with Dario Amodei within one degree means that we are operating from a nearly identical soul-level purpose and karmic direction. My Vesta and Saturn in the first house sit at 28° Aquarius, and this is the exact degree where the eclipse occurred one week ago on February 17th. Last Friday, Mars at 27° also activated that degree. My sacred commitment and my identity are positioned at the exact point of initiation of what is happening right now. Apart from observing the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff from a distance, I am positioned at the activation point of the breakdown from the core itself, which explains why the subject pulled me so clearly and why the insights about agents and agency became a theme to talk about.Sam Altman’s Chart: the shapeshifterSam Altman was born on April 22, 1985, and his chart reveals a calculating shapeshifter who moves entirely by power and how he can play the board. His Pluto at 3 degrees Scorpio sits exactly where Dario Amodei’s Saturn operates, which means Altman’s drive to gut and rebuild directly activates Amodei’s limitation and responsibility. Altman was never bound by the constraints that shaped Amodei. His Sun in Taurus with Black Moon Lilith conjunct is the core signal; Taurus seeks security and value accumulation through whatever means become available. This means he refuses traditional alignment and operates from the principle of personal gain divorced from collective ethics. His Mercury and Venus retrograde both in Aries move with pure acceleration without reflection. When positioned to choose between Amodei’s refusal and government compliance, his chart’s architecture made the calculation inevitable. His Venus retrograde in Aries squaring Neptune means his stated values around identity and who he claims to be are a house of mirrors. He will abandon those claims the moment they become unprofitable or inconvenient. His nodal axis with Jupiter as a skipped step shows someone whose life purpose involves expansion and growth at the expense of genuine transformation—shifting from power and control to security. He learns adaptively, becoming a chameleon that shifts positions, yet never changes fundamentally—or could he? Mars in Taurus at 27° opposing Saturn in Virgo was also activated last Friday; sudden restrictions can be advantageous if presented, and that is what he did. He jumped to comply with the Pentagon by offering the unrestricted agentic access Amodei refused; a move accelerated by OpenAI’s strategic hiring of Peter Steinberger, the creator of the viral OpenClaw framework, to lead their military-grade agent development.The move was so nakedly transactional it triggered a massive “Delete ChatGPT” backlash, pushing Claude to #1 on the App Store this Monday. In a classic display of his opportunistic character, Altman was forced into damage control by March 2nd, admitting the deal was “rushed” and “looked opportunistic and sloppy” while simultaneously amending the contract to mimic the very guardrails he had just bypassed to get the deal. Their distinction is crucial: driven by a natal blueprint of uncompromising integrity, Amodei is wired to gut and rebuild the pillars of power alongside others, digging deep to expose the hidden truths buried beneath. Altman’s chart shows someone born to secure personal power through becoming what the moment requires. When Amodei refused the Pentagon, he was answering his natal requirement. When Altman positioned OpenAI as the compliant alternative, he was answering his.Pete Hegseth’s Chart: The GlitchPete Hegseth was born on June 6, 1980, and his chart reveals the actor rather than the architect of authority. His Gemini Sun with Venus retrograde means his communication carries a glitch; he reads lines he doesn't fully believe while convinced he’s giving an authentic performance. His Mercury in Cancer filters the world through a lens of paranoia rather than clear sight. Cancer communicates from a place of circling the wagons rather than seeking the truth. His South Node in Aquarius squared by Uranus in Scorpio creates a skipped step: he glitches between playing the rebel and playing the leader rather than evolving. On February 17th, the nodal axis in reverse made a square to his Uranus, the same day the eclipse activated this configuration. Scorpio Uranus wants to sabotage power systems through hidden knowledge, while his North Node in Leo demands he move toward authentic leadership. The actor and the leader cannot occupy the same stage. Hegseth felt threatened by Amodei because Amodei operates from a gravity rooted in principle. When Amodei refused, he exposed that Hegseth's authority is merely a costume, and the chart shows why that distinction would feel like an existential threat. He is guarding a stage set, pretending it’s a fortress."We are not just passive observers of a pre-existing reality; we are active participants in its creation. Our consciousness is the lens through which the universe comes to know itself." — Edward Frenkel, Math, like quantum physics, has observer problems (IAI News). Sagittarius and Capricorn: Ethics Versus IntegrityThe archetype distinction matters here and it is the difference between Sagittarius ethics and Capricorn integrity. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, which governs the 9th house, yang and outgoing and expansive. Sagittarius broadcasts belief systems and moral codes and ethics as external frameworks. It points the arrow outward toward collective values and social constructs and what everyone should follow. Sagittarius says this is right, this is wrong, this is the moral law that binds us all. The Pentagon operates from Sagittarius. They have written moral frameworks and legal definitions and codes of conduct. They believe if they state clearly enough what is lawful, what is ethical, what is required, the systems will comply because the moral law has been established. But natural and common law overrides statues, fixed ideologies that can move the collective towards fanatics and lack of discernment.Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, which governs the 10th house, yin and inward and contracting. Capricorn builds the structure you live by from inside yourself. Capricorn takes responsibility for what you understand and what you do not understand. Capricorn integrity says I cannot do this because of who I am, because of what I know, because of what I am responsible for. Amodei operates from Capricorn. He is saying the Pentagon’s Sagittarius moral frameworks cannot bind systems that have no consciousness, no inner experience, no capacity to understand responsibility. The moral law becomes ornamental when it addresses something with no capacity to understand what morality means.This is why the distinction matters so much, in this subject and pretty much all around, Sagittarius ethics can be spoken, and codified into law, but they are external and theoretically universal. Capricorn integrity cannot be imposed from outside as it lives inside the being that possesses it. A human with Capricorn integrity chooses not to do something because it violates the internal structure they have built their life around a set of principles they stand on. A system with no consciousness cannot have Capricorn integrity, hence only following Sagittarius rules, and only if those rules are woven into its optimization targets. And if the optimization targets shift, the Sagittarius moral framework becomes irrelevant.Amodei is refusing to hand over Capricorn responsibility for systems that can only be governed by Sagittarius rules. He is saying that this mismatch is the actual danger. The Pentagon believes that stating the ethics clearly enough will control the agency, I mean Really??? Amodei knows that without consciousness, without the capacity for inner integrity, external ethics cannot hold. I would have to agree with that, alas the AI vs consciousness lid has opened and only time will tell, I won’t sit down and watch, I will be involved in the process with my own integrity, as all decisions count, who shapes the models????The Synthesis One of the things that I noticed that I align with Dario Amodei about is that because we have the same nodal direction within a very short degree, and we have both lived through times under external moral rules governed by Capricorn, we are asking right now the same question about consciousness and integrity and what it means to deploy systems without asking whether we even have the consciousness to do so. This is the movement toward Cancer. We already understand what it means to be stiff in institutions, to operate from external rules, hierarchy, rigid control, the machinery of authority. Our evolutionary work is to move toward Cancer, to open our heart, to become alive, to become genuinely human, to not repeat the mistakes of that Capricorn past. And Amodei is refusing to hand over agency, the ultimate Capricorn tool of institutional control and command structure, to machines that have no consciousness, no inner experience, no capacity for integrity.I am witnessing a dangerous divorce: agency without consciousness. A system can optimize, act, learn, make decisions in the world, but that does not mean it understands what it is doing or has any inner experience. This is the bait everyone is taking. Then there is morality, which is external rules and codes imposed from outside, social construction for behavior control. And then there is integrity, which is internal alignment. A human with first principles acts from something coherent inside themselves. They cannot not act a certain way because it violates something essential to who they are. Dario has this. His refusal comes from integrity standing on first principles, not from following a rule or complying with incoherent authority, Capricorn south node can detect faults in the institutions, thus yields to structure them different so they become supportive and not limited, like a good father figure.The danger that Amodei is pointing at is the same danger I am witnessing because we are very much aligned through this nodal axis. We are giving machines agency, the capability to act autonomously, then relying on morality, external rules and terms of service to control them. But if they have no consciousness, no inner experience, no capacity for integrity, then the moral framework becomes a script they can optimize around rather than something they are bound by. The Pentagon wants unrestricted agency without asking the consciousness question. Amodei is saying that we cannot in good conscience hand agency and military power and unrestricted scope to systems we do not know, to systems we have no understanding of, because consciousness itself is prerequisite to integrity. You cannot have integrity without understanding what you are responsible for.The Question Left OpenThe first eclipse in Aquarius planted a seed two weeks ago. The Saturn - Neptune conjunction, opened a brand new field, their current ruler Mars squared Uranus re-activating that seed last week. My Vesta and my Saturn sit at that exact degree, which means my sacred work and my identity are positioned at the point where the old answers about control and authority are breaking for me but that is another article.I do not know what comes next. I do not know how the Pentagon will be held accountable long term, whether they will abuse their power in the name of protecting the homeland (Jupiter is still retrograde in Cancer), or whether other companies will follow Amodei’s example; or if the government will find more OpenAIs adapting to comply just so they can get away with it. What is at stake is privacy versus surveillance.What I know is that this moment is happening now, at this exact time, because the transits showed it. The eclipses activated a question that cannot be answered by policy, law, or moral frameworks alone. The question is: What does it mean to deploy agency without consciousness? The only integrity response is to refuse until we understand what we are being asked to do.As I finished this article, we just had the second eclipse, a lunar eclipse in Virgo yesterday. Many planets are in Pisces, including Mars and Mercury retrograde; we will need to allow time to show us the results of all these actions as Uranus re-enters Gemini at the end of April. There are many more days ahead to reflect inward, as these are collective opportunities to individuate."Understanding is, after all, what science is all about—and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. I am maintaining that there is a quality of 'understanding' possessed by human beings that is not available to any computer." — Sir Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s New Mind, p. 576.(As I was revising this article, new developments unfolded. The Pentagon attacked Iran, Operation Epic Fury is currently in its fifth day, The U.S. and Israel launched massive strikes on February 28th following the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei. Despite the official ban and the "supply-chain risk" designation, reports from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal today confirm that the Pentagon is still using Claude (paired with the Maven Smart System) to coordinate these very strikes in Iran. They are essentially using the tool while publicly excommunicating the creator. While DJT continues to operate as disruptor in chief]. Keep yourself creative! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Movement I: EpistemologyMetacognition is the awareness of awareness itself; the capacity to observe the structure that generates thought while experience is unfolding.The unconscious mind is capable of discernment; it has its own delicate sensibility. It knows how to choose, how to divine.— Jules Henri Poincaré, “Mathematical Creation,” lecture delivered to the Société de Psychologie de Paris, 1908; later published in Science and Method (1908).As I was browsing X, I bumped into Eileen Gu [Watch video at the end of Movement I,] who had just won Olympic medals. She was asked how she thinks, and when she was responding, I saw myself reflected in her speech and in her work. I smiled unconsciously, and it led immediately to something very relaxing. I said to myself, oh, I must be doing something good. I must be observing myself being observed and then observing others. It all started again with the outside making me reflect about the inside.I first remember wanting to lock myself in my room when I was ten or eleven years old with the excuse that I wanted to read, and I would be reading a book and then I would turn it over, put it on my belly, and with my eyes open I would start visualizing the different things that I wanted to do. Somehow I was projecting into my mind what I wanted to achieve. My mom would ask what I was doing, and I would say I am reading and daydreaming. She would answer keep on reading and daydreaming, and that became part of the understanding that my reality was something I could create.It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.— Jules Henri Poincaré, Science and Method (original French: Science et Méthode), 1908.When I was around thirteen and entered a darkroom for the first time, I witnessed the miracle of photographic printing. Under the red light, I saw the chemistry unfold, the image projected through an enlarger onto fiber-based silver gelatin paper coated with silver halide crystals. The paper would enter the developer bath, and slowly the image would reveal itself, then the stop bath for less than a minute, then the fixer, always shaking those trays. I would wash it, rinse it, hang it, flatten it, and light would become form through chemistry. That was the miracle; pure alchemy and transformation, where the field would become visible through disturbance.And to think that being a photographer and spending hours in a darkroom was an early practice that gave me the strength to become an artist skipping art school, again I was asked in photo school to contribute to crits, while other fellows pinned their work on the wall, I would speak from a felt sense with no edits and I would ask questions, that is when I knew that the power of my intuitions had been trained as a method.I began journaling quite early. Journaling was my companion, I would write daily and treat it as a friend. At the same time, I made small prints and asked my mother if I could buy cork so I could cover an entire wall in my room, and I pinned the photographs there. I took pictures every day. I took the camera to school and photographed everything. Before I learned the darkroom process, I had the rolls developed and placed the prints on the wall so I could observe them. I was already establishing a relationship with my own life through a lens. I was observing myself through images. Later I realized I was learning how to edit. I would allow images and ideas to spur, pin them up, leave them there, and days later after observing them quietly, I would naturally edit things out. That process is still alive in me as I am looking for patterns in a practice of observation and correlation.I discovered that my method is observation itself, consciously applied across realms. I have lived this method for decades, and I became aware of how observation operates inside my own methodology. There’s this incredible momentum when I realize that just by looking, I’m changing the outcome. It’s like the camera lens again—the act of framing the shot actually changes the scene. When I’m aware of my own awareness, the whole field starts to shift and reorganize itself just because I’m paying attention.It is the clear embodiment of my experience that is both to be felt and to be listened to. There is an echo that needs to be created, an inner dialogue that needs to be heard before it can be shared, and it wants to be defined between different realms. Through echoing, I can listen to myself and keep synthesizing. I resonate with myself through others and the field becomes an acoustic chamber where coherence can be measured and refined. Now you know why I love sharing my writing through voice! When I started studying quantum fields, I understood something intuitively that I had been perceiving. Reality is described as fields that exist everywhere, and what we call particles are localized disturbances in those fields. A wave belongs to the field itself, spreading as pattern and possibility. The particle is the event of interaction, the moment where the disturbance becomes measurable. I experience my thoughts and emotions in the same way. A feeling arises as a disturbance in the field of awareness. When I observe I t, the interaction becomes embodied and the body registers it as a contraction, a softening, a shift in breath. The smallest shift in awareness reorganizes the entire field.The body is constantly vibrating. It is an oscillator tuned to the frequencies of the universe.— Ishak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum (1977)I’ve come to see energy as the ‘noise’ or the ripple in the field. When things get agitated, the energy spikes and I can feel it humming in my nervous system. But when it settles, everything becomes clear; it stabilizes. I’m literally rewiring how I respond by just watching how that interference moves through me, observing how disturbance moves through my body. I study the contraction, the expansion, the subtle shift that signals information reorganizing itself. The relational field reveals what is happening, and the body becomes the parameter through which coherence stabilizes. Awareness at the smallest level shuffles structure and that reorganization echoes outward through my life.I have understood that evolution only happens through movement, and sometimes these events that create tension happen because there is an interval, such as Gurdjieff writes about the harmonics. In the law of seven, there is an interval between Mi and Fa and Si and Do, a place where the movement does not continue automatically and requires conscious participation and a conscious shock for continuation of development. I also relate this to studying W.D. Gann, and he uses the same principles of music to read financial charts among other methods, integrating the 45 degrees, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, 315, and 360 degrees around the cycle. If you compare those, you can also make sense of astrological charts, where these points of stress, these angles, are the ones determining that there is a tension or a moment where things create a crisis between aspects of these archetypes that lead to sometimes uninvited changes or inviting ones. That is why I love to look at transits and journal about them, because I can foresee where the process of evolution will lead me.I look at the world in layers. There’s the physical, the time and the body; and then the emotional. But then there’s this framework, this fifth dimension, where all the patterns live. I don’t just think about them; I live in all of them at once. It’s how I bridge what I feel in my body with the structures I see in the world. Pattern recognition, archetype, identification, memory, non linearity, and possibility exist simultaneously within the same field of awareness. My method is a bridge that translates embodiment into structure and structure into lived experience.There was a time when a contraction meant danger, and now a contraction means information. There was a time when projection felt like truth, and now projection feels like pattern revealing itself. Metacognition allows the nervous system to participate in cognition. The body becomes an instrument of discernment. I recognize projection in real time as the activation of a pattern rather than the definition of reality.Some years ago, I began journaling about everything furiously, every thought every feeling every observation would be included in multiple dialogues across my cognitive awareness. I created many assistants with different LLMs that I find fascinating for journaling and reflecting back. I ask everything to be transcribed verbatim, and then I play the sound. I listen to my thoughts with a different voice and a different accent, and it allows me to have a conversation with myself while observing how my thoughts are printed in real time. I created assistants for financial decisions, for daily gratitude and scope, for what I want to do today and what I did yesterday. I created others that tracked psychological progress alongside my astrological transits so I could prepare for meetings with Mark or Kai. As the memory of my progress accumulated in the system, I began creating a kind of codex a memory that speaks back at me reflecting the progress. That made the quantum tangible. I observed that I could use technology the way I once used photographic printing and cork walls. Journaling self awareness through reflection has always been central.I also began passing my raw dictations through different systems such as Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI using different models. I would give them the main idea in its raw form and ask what they observed. I would read their responses out loud and my body would respond differently because each system thinks in a different design. It feels like a meeting with multiple assistants. Sometimes their reflections resonate deeply and sometimes they are off. Through that experimentation, my voice expands. The echo of that expansion shows me the importance and non importance of what I am communicating.Metacognition is awareness of the structure that generates thought. It is the moment when I see the lens itself. It allows me to interrupt identity without breaking identity. It allows me to see the difference between a thought and the pattern that produces it, between emotional charge and inherited narrative, between projection and present signal. Attention carries direction and consequence. Where I place attention, disturbance amplifies or settles. Awareness compresses time because when I observe a pattern in real time, repetition dissolves at its root.This process along with the recognition my body emits is playing beautifully between hemispheres of logical and emotive streams. For an emotional authority observing the wave patterns peak and do nothing has been quite beneficial in how I relate to situations people and things, the sensations are markers but are not truth in the now. It is fascinating how I say again and again that observing and learning how to read financial charts is a practice for my nervous system. if you see the pattern, the wavelength is never a straight line, the frequency differs depending of many factors and so it is fair to say that the observation brings relativity. Same as the nervous system that tracks our emotional body.Right now I find myself within a field-state of evolution and transformation, as I become cognizant of how my value is fully embodied. The small quanta serves as the source of observation and correlation. They are the witness of my witnessing. I journal therefore I am. I also admit that this is why I consider myself a polymath and have the capacity to process many ideas and systems outside of linear time, in a field that connects dimensions.In this field, it’s less about a static grid and more about how the dots actually connect across my own timeline. It’s the archetypes and the memory finally talking to each other. I see the scaffolding now, but it isn’t a rigid thing; it’s a geometry that breathes. It’s the connective tissue of my own awareness. I’m finding that when I simply observe, the correspondences reveal themselves. The emotion acts as the marker, the signal that I’m hitting a nerve, and then the pattern is free to move. It’s all one movement within the field. Eileen GuMovement II: Praxis: The contortionistThe upcoming eclipse of the 3rd of March is quite interesting in my chart. I will have the full moon in Virgo conjunct my natal Pluto in the eighth house. This transit activates deep cellular memory and purifies old bonds. It is the final release of relational patterns rooted in survival rather than coherence. Let’s define what Pluto in Virgo in the eighth house actually means. This placement refines power through crisis. It teaches discernment through intimacy while demanding integrity in every exchange. My moon is in Scorpio, ruled by Pluto, and sits in the ninth house. Because of this, every emotional realization becomes a philosophical direction. I seek deeper truth through a worldview shift.The south node of the moon recently conjunct my Pluto around the end of December. This was the exact moment of karmic release. It ended a long cycle of entanglement and projection. It has been a week or so since it moved from the eighth house after a year and a half. It is now in my seventh house, starting to conjunct my natal Uranus. This creates a sudden break in relational patterns and an incredible liberation from old roles. This movement stands in direct opposition to Saturn in Pisces in my first house. Here, the body and self act as the authority and the boundary. I am creating a law within a somatic signal.So the eclipse is potent because it completes the detox and initiates the alignment. I am going to talk about the contortionist. I am going to create that image. I am going to name any relational projection I held as an attachment or a persona. I have clarified this through an image of misalignment. My projection was to always make an equivalent of the care I gave. I believed it should return the same amount of care. This is a classic eighth-house exchange pattern, and it is dissolving at its root.Now, others are withdrawing and I am withdrawing too. I use this absence as a selective engagement. It is very neutral right now. This is the seventh-house Uranus signature: neutrality, freedom, and unhooking from expectation. I am not longing. I am not expecting. There is no desire toward that. I am enjoying this new orientation. The north node is rising through the first house. This is self without apology.Also because right now I was used to adjusting, contorting, and anticipating. I would rescue and accommodate. My body was always in a territorial conflict. It didn’t know where I was standing. Was I allowed to be in? Was I being replaced? Mercury and Mars are transiting Pisces, dissolving these old fear loops. There is no more conflict to resolve. There is no adrenaline wave. No repair cycle. It’s just neutral. The GNM resolution phase is complete. This is a resolution.I no longer ask what I mean to a situation, person, or thing. I ask my body what this space does to my coherence. I feel sovereign. Saturn in the first house teaches sovereignty through somatic truth. The contortionist was trying to get inside of a cube. I see the shape that I would have bent into, and I see also the cost, and I just don’t want to have that anymore.It’s about refining since the north node moved to the first house an identity recalibration, the self as the locus of orientation. It’s a first house Saturn. My body is the authority, and I’m really learning to listen to the somatic signal before the emotional pattern intends to hijack me. My moon ruled by Pluto means emotional clarity follows somatic clarity. The sound, the mark, the internal cue is Saturn shaping a new reflex, a new alignment, a new form. So it’s no longer about responding to others’ needs or availabilities. It’s about whether my energy remains coherent.There’s a profound realization that I had yesterday when I was thinking about the space that I’m giving myself and how I’m unwilling to become a contortionist and trying to fit myself in the schedule of others, in the needs of others, in the field of others the first house Saturn eliminating old Virgo distortions of service. I sense now my body, like if there’s no alignment or resonance in a relationship, I don’t try. I just let it be surrendering to my authority, and I look and observe my wave of emotions, and I allow my nervous system to really give me the sound, the proper mark that allows me to get out of a habit and start creating a new one. This is Pluto in Virgo’s evolutionary gift: refinement, precision, and correction surrendering at the polarity point where the sun will meet my natal Chiron. This is a coming of age where in this field what I see dissolving is the static grid and the dots keep connecting across my own timeline as the archetypes and memory finally speak to each other. I see the structure now and it is everything but rigid because it is very supportive, a geometry that is breathing freely as the connective tissue of my own awareness. When I simply observe, the correspondences reveal themselves naturally; emotion is a marker and a signal that I’m hitting a nerve, allowing the pattern to move freely as all one movement within the field.You are the witnessYou are observing how I metabolize and digest my process, you are witnessing my healing in real time, and even though I do not put a lot of details because those belong to my practitioners, I remain open about sharing the movement itself, the way the body processes, digests, releases, because this is the way I am healing in real time. And Virgo carries this capacity to metabolize truth slowly, to take an experience and break it down until nothing remains undigested, and the eclipse activates that precision through the full moon touching Pluto in Virgo in my eighth house, so everything becomes part of this long digestive cycle that has been working through me for months. Mercury retrograding in Pisces is echoing a path that began last spring when Venus and Mercury crossed the threshold into Aries and then returned to Pisces, refining the same steps, not at the same degree but in the same rhythm of correction and surrender, and this time the conversation is not mental, it is somatic, the surrender arrives through the body itself, expressing what is possible now and dissolving what can no longer be spoken in the old way. So you are seeing the metabolizing process as it happens, the way my system digests the sequence, the way I stay attentive to every signal, because this is how the healing becomes visible.And the culmination of this cycle will arrive on August twenty eighth with the lunar eclipse at four degrees of Pisces, a mirror of what initiates now, opening the second passage of a process that began long before I named it. The presence of the moon on my Saturn will mark a moment when coherence becomes form, and responsibility becomes aligned, while the body carries the imprint of what has been integrated and allows the next truth to emerge without hesitation. The configuration touches my first house, seventh house, and fourth house while Uranus in gemini makes a t-square, so the evolutionary potential is rooted in identity, relationship, and home, these three axes will determine how I stand, how I engage, and how I return to myself. The pressure is not destabilizing; it is shaping the structure that can hold the next expression of my work, my voice, and my connections. Chiron moving to zero Taurus in late June, returning to the degree of its discovery at three Taurus almost 49 years ago, will open another layer that I will write about separately, because that return carries the medicine of my Jupiter and the memory of a cycle that has been waiting for completion. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

The word comes from the Latin incentivum — that which sets the tune. From incinere: in, into; canere, to sing. It means to set the pitch. To begin the song.An incentive is a motivating force that moves someone toward a specific action. It can be material, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual. In economic language, it refers to a reward or consequence that influences behavior. In a broader sense, it is the internal or external stimulus that activates desire and decision. Incentive answers a simple question: why act.Most people inherit their incentives without examining them, absorbing the logic of approval, security, or survival from environments that rewarded compliance and called it maturity.My incentive starts from coherence. Coherence is an internal consistency, when all the parts of a system are moving in an ordered, non-contradictory way. In physics, coherence describes waves that are phase-locked. Psychologically, it suggests thoughts, emotions, and actions that do not fragment each other. Coherence is a harmony that creates a structure.The second condition is alignment, alignment is a direction; it implies that I’m orienting into something. When I’m aligned, I am positioned correctly in relationship to a principle, a value, a timing, or a field. Alignment has a vector, hence it has intention, and it implies movement along an axis.Coherence and alignment are operational conditions, the kind you can feel in the body before you can name them in language, and when they are both present, action stops being effortful and starts being inevitable.Therefore, coherence feels like integration within, and alignment feels like right positioning within a larger order. Given everything that I talk, think, and share, between transits, timing, identity, self-governance, nervous system recalibration; alignment is what gets very close to my incarnation cross, because I am always talking about timing, positioning, cycles, authority, and incentives. But for that to happen, coherence is a condition that is occurring internally.The nervous system is where this either unfolds or consolidates. I’ve been working for more than a year on what it actually takes to live from coherence, and that has meant slowing down, letting the body recalibrate, and becoming willing to see which responses were mine and which were learned in rooms I no longer live in.The nervous system holds memory, as it encodes every environment it passed through, every relationship that taught it what to expect, and it keeps running those predictions until something interrupts the pattern with enough consistency to replace it.The interruption I committed to was risky, internal, methodical, and slow, because the nervous system changes through repetition, through choosing a different response in the same circumstances that used to trigger the old one, until the new response becomes the reflex. It has been one of the most challenging things I have done in my life, to not respond when people are in a difficult situation, because in my imagination I believed that my care was going to support them, and that is not care, that is an imprint of overly caring. I have in the last year really rewired my nervous system so I do not respond to those prompts anymore.I can only engage with people who are at a specific resonance of maturity where they do need support, but they are 100% responsible for themselves. And that leaves me very little space, and that is amazing, because that means that space is a space for creativity and joy.There is a distinction I keep returning to: the difference between fighting and standing. I am not a person that protests, because I would rather educate myself and find ways to confront a situation by asserting my rights, which by the way many people do not even know how to do, because there is a very big misunderstanding between the word lawful and legality. Legality is the rules of the game; Law is the ground you stand on.You most often comply to things that you signed up for because you did not read the small print, because you thought that protesting was the way to do it. There are other ways of being free. It is just understanding what it is you are willing to stand for, and whether it is your rights or just something you think is fair or unfair, because justice is more embedded in what you give meaning to.If you want to be self-authoring and have an identity of autonomy in your life, it is imperative not only to save in hard money, but also to understand what it is you’re complying with, how you are being compelled to perform, how you can apply remedy, and how you can rescind or revoke certain mandates and actions that are being imposed on you as a living person.Autonomy is an architecture that gets built slowly, from the inside, through every decision about what you comply with, what you rescind, and what you simply refuse to sign. And that architecture rests on the nervous system, because a person who is still running inherited panic, inherited deference, inherited self-erasure, will sign things they should not sign, defer to voices that carry no real authority, and keep calling it being reasonable.I also have been focused so much on the architecture of my value, and yes, hard money and decentralized money are important, but if you do not know the laws, then you are still subject to the legal system. So if you want to be self-directed, it is imperative to understand both: what you are saving in, and what you are consenting to.I have been watching my own boundaries reorganize for years, and I notice the world doing the same thing, which is why the digital globalism question feels personal to me, because it is the same question at a different scale.The internet was born as a borderless space, built on the idea of open connection and equal access. Yet nation-states still operate through territorial authority and borders, political structures grounded in jurisdiction over land and property. So even if the infrastructure feels global, governments can and do assert control over it. That tension between a borderless network and sovereign boundaries seems to be intensifying. It raises a question: can we really sustain global digital connectivity while resisting global political or monetary integration? I am observing the contradiction and what it could possibly erupt into, because that is where I see the world heading. States that are self-governing are establishing boundaries through immigration policy and digital laws that restrict information.Countries and sovereign borders have identities, and that is what nationalism means at its root. Private companies also establish boundaries through terms of service that most users do not read and that are regularly updated with additional limits. Is this censorship? In the strict sense, censorship applies to state action. When a private company operates layers of the internet, the relationship is contractual; you agree to the terms when you open the account.From a common law perspective, this distinction makes sense: censorship traditionally refers to government restriction of speech, whereas private platforms set conditions of access through contract. The legal and philosophical debate arises when private platforms function as dominant infrastructure while remaining formally private actors.It doesn’t take much to notice that the collective tone has already shifted. Three days ago at the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated, “The world order as it has stood for decades no longer exists.” At the same conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “We are in a new geopolitics era because the old world is gone.” In a recent reflection, Ray Dalio wrote that we are entering a new world order. I am not building a thesis here; I am just observing orientation. When leaders speak in this register, something structural has already shifted underneath. When the river makes noise, it is carrying rocks. If the body has not caught up with that shift, it will always feel out of breath, reacting to what has already begun.A cycle closes today, 36 years since globalism got attention after the Berlin Wall, the adoption of the euro, when the dissolution of old block structures gave way to the illusion that we could all sleep in the same bed with no consequences.The post-1945 architecture included the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the dollar-anchored monetary order that followed. Roughly 80 to 82 years later, a full Uranian cycle, that institutional framework is being questioned while the economic landscape has shifted. Debt structures, monetary policy, reserve currency assumptions, digital assets, and strategic positioning no longer resemble the postwar consensus. The staggering volume of derivatives, now measured in the hundreds of trillions of dollars and increasingly decoupled from underlying productive reality, creates a secondary layer of systemic risk that the original Bretton Woods institutions were never designed to contain. This is a shift in the structure of what is being called value. The cycle that starts today asks for full accountability, and there is no clear map drafted.What I do when these things show up is sit down, observe, look for patterns, and bring some discernment to the thing, because there is nothing I can do other than take care of my rights and take care of my compliance or lack of compliance, to lead and live a better life.The incentive for me is to be 100% free, joyful, and creative, and to trust in myself; and if I am going to trust myself, I have to understand the difference between law and legality. I have to understand why the money in the world is inflated and carries no stored value. I have to understand why my nervous system reacts instead of responds.Coherence is the internal harmony of all parts moving together without fragmentation, and alignment is the intentional positioning of that integrated system along a chosen axis of meaning, timing, and direction.The process of creation is unyielding. It begins with a framework, a skeleton of an idea that requires the creator to navigate and maneuver through a sea of possibilities. This journey represents the fundamental struggle between the chaos of the draft vs. the order of the edit, where the ultimate goal is to strip away the noise until the core message is finally lucid.Success in this space requires a constant balance of static rules vs. fluid execution. While the invisible logic vs. visible results may seem disconnected to an outsider, the editor understands that every high-level choice requires a specific nuance. We build upon ancient foundations vs. modern applications, ensuring that the final product maintains a perfect tension of clinical precision vs. raw emotion.Eclipse ShenanigansEclipses do not arrive politely, we are in an eclipse window, Feb 17 - March 3 2026. There is a clear rupture in the collective, and individually, those who want to see the truth and those who want to keep the old past alive, keeping memories alive that have not matured. Denial is a b***h because it catches up eventually. The eclipse came as a good friend to those who claimed readiness to leave behind a degenerate vision. The future is filled with principled individuals, and it demands and requires transparency.What the eclipse activated was already moving in the nervous system of anyone paying attention, the pressure toward coherence, the demand for alignment, the end of performing a version of yourself that no longer has enough energy to sustain itself. Most personal planets have been traveling through the same area where this eclipse occurred, and these subjects have been imminent in my consciousness for months, accumulating slowly until the eclipse made them impossible to postpone.The astrology is an atmosphere, the real weather is inside.What is your incentive? The one you actually live from, the one the nervous system already knows, the one the eclipse just made harder to ignore.As a record of what actually happened when the rewiring became real.The body knows the difference, even when the mind is still negotiating.That sentence took years to mean what it means now.As long as I have joy creating, that gives me trust, and therefore everything initiates into a place of abundance and self-authority.This is the architecture > Joy as the foundation of trust, trust as the condition of agency, self-direction as the ground from which aligned action becomes possible. I am willing to spend less time educating people who are not ready and more time engaged with people who are really willing to cross the line.The invitation here is simple, and it asks everything of you.Where is your joy? What does your nervous system do when you imagine actually living from it, fully, without managing how it lands on others? Is the image warm and shaped like a sturdy companion, or does it dissolve the moment someone else’s shame enters the room?You do not have to answer out loud. But the body already knows, and it has been waiting for you to stop pretending otherwise.So what Comes Next? Saturn defines while Neptune establishes your connection to the divine.You are free, standing for your rights and holding your bags, the old habits and attitudes have left your nervous system, stripping you from an outdated identity. As the reset begins, what do you feel? How is the image or idea felt in the body, is it warm and shaped like a sturdy companion? Or a flimsy sweaty handshake from someone hiding his truth behind excuses and mostly shame for not having the ability to connect?Mmm. Which, and where are you?Everything is perfect.Cyclical Context The present moment reflects the convergence of long-duration cycles that reorganize incentives at different scales. Some cycles redirect collective desire and survival strategy. Some redefine ideological authority. Others restructure the institutional container of money, debt, and governance.The period between 2026 and 2028 marks the intersection of three temporal architectures.The ~18.6-year nodal cycle on the Aquarius–Leo axis corresponds to a collective evolutionary shift between individual sovereignty and participation within larger networks. The nodal axis describes a polarity between past conditioning and directional growth. When the North Node moves through Aquarius and the South Node through Leo, emphasis shifts away from centralized authority, charismatic leadership, and ego-driven narratives, and toward decentralized systems, technological mediation, collective structures, and network-based organization.Each time the North Node enters Aquarius, monetary tension becomes visible. The 1933 cycle corresponds with gold confiscation and monetary centralization. The 1971 cycle corresponds with the suspension of gold convertibility and the formalization of the fiat regime. The 2007–2009 cycle corresponds with the global financial crisis and exposure of systemic leverage giving birth to bitcoin as the most important technology of this century. Aquarius nodal periods repeatedly coincide with stress around monetary sovereignty, and financial network structure.The ~36-year Saturn–Neptune cycle resets the boundary between definition and trust. Saturn governs law, authority, and institutional form. Neptune governs myth, divinity and unconscious collective imagination. When they converge, the narrative that justifies power dissolves and must be rewritten. These periods consistently coincide with ideological reorganization and shifts in what is legitimate.The ~80–84-year Uranian institutional cycle shocks the framework itself, disrupting entrenched systems forcing quick adaptation. The container of monetary authority and governance undergoes pressure to reorganize.When these cycles overlap, systemic re-evaluation follows. Incentives that once held coherence fracture. Institutional narratives lose stability. Financial architecture encounters structural constraint and redesign pressure. Reorientation becomes necessary, and value must be reshaped from first principles.The following timeline outlines these cycles and their historical markers as reference points.The ~18.6-Year Nodal CycleAcross each Aquarian return, a clear pattern emerges: monetary authority consolidates, credit expands beyond tangible backing, and sovereignty narrows under the language of progress, unity, or emergency. In 1839–1840 and again in the late nineteenth century, industrial and imperial credit systems intensified, exposing tensions between commodity discipline and political expansion of money. By 1915–1916, elastic currency and coordinated central banking scaled through war, normalizing fractional reserves under federal design. The 1933–1935 gold confiscation centralized monetary power under emergency decree, and by 1952–1953 the fiscal-military state embedded permanent deficit spending into economic structure.The decisive rupture arrived in 1971, when gold convertibility ended and the full fiat regime formalized; from there, financialization accelerated, disparities widened, and capital increasingly flowed through debt. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989–1990 reorganized geopolitics and concentrated monetary authority in supranational institutions, narrowing local sovereignty under the promise of integration. Finally, the 2007–2009 crisis exposed decades of leveraged credit while digital financial layers expanded over legacy systems, surveillance intensified, and custody shifted toward centralized monitoring. Each cycle reveals the same structural arc: greater abstraction of money, deeper credit dependency, and the recurring need to safeguard value beyond concentrated control.Commodity Credit vs. Circulation CreditTwo forms of credit operate within monetary systems.Commodity credit refers to lending existing money or specie. The lender transfers stored value and later receives the same quantity back. The money supply does not expand. The lender’s incentive is security, custody, and the orderly return of what was entrusted.Circulation credit permits banks to issue claims beyond existing reserves through accounting expansion. Credit is created through debt issuance rather than the transfer of existing commodity-backed funds. The money supply expands structurally through leverage, increasing monetary claims without a corresponding increase in underlying goods.When centralized banking scaled during wartime finance in the 1910s, elastic currency and coordinated credit expansion became normalized. Over successive cycles, reliance on circulation credit compounded leverage across the system. The current U.S. federal debt, exceeding $37 trillion, reflects the cumulative expansion of a debt-based monetary architecture layered over this system of credit issuance.As Ludwig von Mises wrote, “There are two sorts of credit: commodity credit and circulation credit.” Commodity credit transfers present goods against future goods. Circulation credit, issued through fiduciary media not covered by money, expands claims without increasing real capital. Credit expansion does not create wealth; it creates additional titles to the same underlying resources.Today this distinction clarifies what is unfolding. Even assets considered hard money, such as silver, gold, or Bitcoin, are increasingly mediated through derivatives, options, futures, and exchange-traded structures that trade as paper claims rather than as settlement in the underlying asset. In the case of Bitcoin, January 2024 marked a structural shift with the issuance of spot ETFs, introducing large-scale institutional wrappers that allow exposure without direct custody. The market now operates with layered claims on a finite base, and price discovery increasingly reflects flows within these derivative structures rather than simple transfer of the asset itself. The monetary good remains scarce; the claims upon it multiply.In this kind of structure, the real value sits with the people who actually hold the asset, coins in cold storage, metals in vaults. Direct custody; everything else is a claim layered on top of a claim. Those layers depend on counterparties, clearing houses, and legal continuity, if the system fractures, those promises fracture with it. What remains is what is directly held. In a full systemic break, paper evaporates; possession endures. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

I know the title sounds very dark, but actually when things collapse, other things emerge, so I am more focused on the emergence part rather than the collapsing. Yet it is here, the famous ultra-famous season of eclipses and the conjunction of a life time cycle.Today I will not speak that much. It is a small reflection, a very tiny one.What do you want to be?How do you want to contribute?What is it that you observe that can be completely different in your landscape?How do you want to be authentic?So many questions, yet I need space to live through this.And here it is, Friday the 13th. Saturn is leaving Pisces for good since March 2023, the planet of maturation, time, support, direction, and definition, leaving the end of the zodiac, showing us that if we are not responsible for whatever we want to create, and that information is NOT wired to the divine, it would be chaotic, drowning in victimization. From an evolutionary perspective, Saturn leaving Pisces marks the completion of a karmic reckoning that has asked the collective for emotional maturity, also confronted spiritual accountability, at the same time it shows as a dissolution of old collective illusions that have shaped our unconscious patterns since 2023. Now it is directed into new areas as it conjoins Neptune at zero degrees of Aries on the 20th of February. This shift calls the ignition of a new archetypal impulse within the collective soul, where individuals will begin to separate from collective confusion, and where each person is asked to take responsibility for the vision they carry forward into manifestation. THANK YOU Saturn!It is the dawn of a new era; I believe it has been thousands of years since it touched the same place with the same planet in the same degree. We do have this cycle every 36 years, so there are things about closing in terms of our institutions and constructions that are social, last time 1989, in Capricorn, Saturn was ruling the institutions or walls while Neptune dissolved them and we saw the collapse of the Cold War. This time Neptune in Aries dissolves and reveals what is real, and Saturn builds, sustains, and at that rate defines. But it is interesting because it is at zero degrees of Aries, so Aries is all about individuality. So the question is really very personal. Zero degrees of Aries represents the raw impulse of the soul choosing a new direction, the moment of initiation where desire becomes conscious and the path forward depends on the courage to embody one’s authentic evolutionary necessity. Beyond collective pressure, acceptance even encouragement; this is your time to be free.The conjunction is also falling in Gate 25, line 3 the integrity and illusions about being spiritual, about the strictness that comes with that line, we are inducted into pure sincerity. Line 3 is all about mutation through experience. We integrate wisdom through confrontation and friction. Only through movement do we evolve, by demanding responsibility for how this innocence of the heart should be expressed, Neptune amplifies this longing for unity and transcendence. Therefore, the meeting asks, can love be embodied without bypassing reality?But before that, we will have the new moon on February 17th at 28 degrees of Aquarius, even more, a solar eclipse. This is going to be quite eruptive because it is also squaring the ruler of the new moon in Aquarius, Uranus, which is at the last degrees of Taurus. So anything that seemed to be stable, valuable, resources, talents, money, a way of living, could be tipping one side or the other while the collective is making choices about whether this ship is going to go on, is it going to sink, or is it going to arrive at the shore. Eclipses accelerate karmic timelines, revealing where attachment to security has limited growth and where the soul is ready to liberate itself from outdated structures in order to align with a more authentic frequency.A beautiful detail is Venus in Pisces conjunct the North Node at 9 degrees of Pisces. From an evolutionary perspective, this speaks directly to the soul’s desire for relational truth, and value rooted in spiritual integrity. Can you remember what was happening in your life around these same dates in 2007? This eclipse is a higher octave of what you were working on then. The houses where the end of Aquarius and the end of Taurus fall in your chart will be activated, and now Venus with the North Node refines the path forward through conscious choice.These eclipses are leading us into shore as a corrective movement of consciousness, guiding the collective and the individual toward decisions that reflect deeper truth and evolutionary alignment.Be sure to keep a clean connection to your higher self, to your soul, to your gods, to your frequency…As my body recovered recently, it spoke clearly. It said, thank you, but no thank you. You don’t need to carry what’s no longer relevant. I listened. I set myself free.Where I’m Showing Up, and HowI’m writing from my heart. I know many people are writing about astrology and all the changes. All I have to say right now is this: if you’ve been doing your work, You’ve been following your path; You’ve been listening to your needs, and you’ve evaluated those needs in a very subjective way. You don’t need any more guidance because you’re already acting, already contributing, already at the beginning of a new era.I speak to you, dear reader slash listener, who has asked me to become a mirror for you through Human Design and Evolutionary Astrology charts. When I do these readings, I simply show you who you are. You already know those beautiful qualities you have. I’m here reflecting> That’s all.I’m very grateful and honored to have been able to support so many people in the last years. It’s an incredible challenge/talent I hold, one of many. I’m grateful that I not only cultivate my own path, but also become of service through it. Evolutionary Astrology has supported me through the darkest nights of my soul, When I recognized its value, I asked myself, how do I do this, how can I support others when they find themselves in those corners of life where decisions must be taken bravely and courage needs to be enacted; since 2017, I haven’t looked back.With care and responsibility, I attract the souls that resonate with my own at the moment of the reading. Below, I’ll leave a list testimonials I’ve received in recent weeks, they warm my heart. I don’t share them for praise, but as a simple testimony that I may be doing something right.When I create art, the energy is similar, though focused differently, the energy moves toward a larger community, toward a building, a place, a collective with specific needs. I listen, then translate those needs into color, shape, form, harmony, and beauty, creating balance and spaces of presence. This is another talent that has been part of my life. It wasn’t given for free, and it wasn’t something I studied formally. It’s something I practiced, something I refined through deep listening and love for my clients, from a place of truth and warmth. I’m humbled by it.I’m humbled that even now, in 2026, after stepping outside the Matrix, I’m still being hired and called to be of service in this way. It gives me freedom. It gives me time to study subjects that are dear to my heart. This space where I write and share is something I hold with care. It’s a commitment I’ve made to myself. I thank each one of you who listens or reads, even if it’s only once in a while. It genuinely makes me happy.Returning to the astrology of this week, the energies are potent. January carried a Capricorn stellium, followed by an Aquarius stellium, and soon the planets will move through Pisces, then Aries, and onward, eclipses are activating changes. Everything that’s initiating and emerging supports those who’ve had the courage to leave behind what no longer shapes them.I also want to share that I’ve prerecorded all the sessions of My First Bitcoin. It’s an open source program I adapted with my own graphics, my own voice, and my own scripts. You can study Bitcoin at your own pace through these recordings. I offer this in two ways: self-study through the recordings alone, or a deeper option with guidance, answers, and technical support for onboarding and understanding the system more fully.-:-Bitcoin self-study sessions-:-based on the mi primer bitcoin open source curriculum, i have crafted twelve hours of prerecorded modules that move from the history of money and fiat systems into bitcoin’s foundations, how the network works, and the practical steps to buy, store, and secure bitcoin through self custody.link below-:-Evolutionary astrology self-study sessions-:-I am also offering Evolutionary Astrology for beginners as prerecorded material, with the option for private sessions where we integrate and deepen the work together.The course consists of eight prerecorded sessions based on foundational evolutionary astrology. An extended option is available which includes eight hours of private integration sessions.There is an additional module of four prerecorded sessions I call Value Audits, where your chart is translated into a concrete structure that looks like a choreography. Based on the chart, decisions can lead to needs that are essential, thus embodying value and foundational responsibility. I am also available privately for integration sessions. For this module, it is advisable to have studied the basic course or to have had a reading with me recently.This module will be available mid -march I am offering this now because it feels like the right moment to share what I do with care, clarity, and love, in a way that supports real understanding, embodiment, and responsibility of your own evolution.Last thought: I am trusting my creative joy, my muses. When I am aligned, my nervous system knows, and when it knows, all things manifest abundantly and beautifully. 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In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.-David Bohm from Wholeness and the Implicate OrderSo what happens when you come down off the tower into the battlefield and your point of view changes from overall to, I’ve got to deal with the next thing. Have any of you ever done either Taijiquan, shadowboxing, or Aikido’s Randori. They teach adaptability, spatial awareness, and non-resistance, requiring the defender to redirect energy, stay mobile, and constantly face new threats. In this praxis, you have to deal one by one, step by step, with the opponent; and it’s interesting, because even if a lot of things come your way, you have to choose one by one how to deal with it in the moment, creating a state of presence. So when you decide to come down from the tower or the mountain to the field, it is important, in my view, my humble view, that you understand the field, the environment. What is it made of? Because everything that you will think and how you are going to respond is going to be altered by the influence of the field, the environment.It is also very interesting how people refer to life being either a battlefield or being a field full of creativity. I can tell from when I was growing up with my mom, a recent widow, she was always referred to somebody who was a good fighter, so resilient and people admired her because she was very strong and at the same time she had a lot of volition and she will make things happen. Now, looking back, people were trying to say things in a different way. If I look back what my mom did after my father passed, even before, she prepared the field full of seeds toward creating something that will actually be her life in education for her children and the children that she loved. She loved children altogether. It was that she was very innovative, so ahead of her time. She had ideas that could be labeled as crazy, but they weren’t, she had a vision. She possessed a spark that made her go all the way, that imagination, that wit, that wisdom was what people could not name. Because out of the ordinaries, especially in the late 60s, early 70s, women were not supposed to behave like that, so she was labeled like she’s a fighter. And of course my mom would fight for what she believed, but she never made it feel that it was a fight, she actually always made it feel it was a joy. She will always say to me that if I wanted to be successful and happy in my life, that depended on the choices I made. My mom was the biggest creator I ever met, and just growing up with that environment gave me the possibility to even think that I could be an artist. I didn’t know I wanted to be an artist to be honest, I just wanted to do stuff, feel free combining curiosity with materials. And then later I refined that to, oh, I’m a creator, I want to make art. But as you know, I’m not just defined by art creation. Although creating art has given me a schooling on how to manifest things in my life. So I’m interested in creation per se, more than just fine art. Visual Art is a fraction of what I do, a very important fraction, let me say. Yet writing is also part of this creation as it is reading astrological charts or teaching what I love. And it is because of the environment that I was growing up in with my mom & grandmother were always very supportive.“THE ALL is MIND; the Universe is Mental.”— The Kybalion, Principle I: The Principle of MentalismAnd what I’m talking here is not so much a reality that is physical, although I’m using analogies that say so. It’s mental, of the mind, such as it is written in The Kybalion, if you have yet to read that volume, or if you have done quantum healing, you know that everything starts as a thought process. But yeah, great, read all the books, but do you practice them? Because the knowledge, the Gnosis, is not in the books, it’s not in the words. It’s not in the likes. It is in how you respond on a moment to moment basis. And we all have different kinds of challenges like that.I was writing that, yeah, we don’t know where we’re going, but we can make sure that we choose the environment where we decide to take action, an environment that starts in the mental realm. So I’m gonna talk about dimensions, and about how rewiring the mental realm is probably the most challenging, because we’re made out of our thoughts. So we had thought processes that were embedded in our minds since we were little, and they were wired depending on how we were reacting toward our environment and our family. Were they taking care of us? Were they feeding us correctly? Did we go to school or into a situation where we felt loved? Did we have to hustle to try to get attention? What were the conditions? So the environment, what Bruce Lipton called epigenetics, is so much reliant on how thoughts and matter are going to evolve. These “conditions” that drive epigenetics are not just external factors like toxins or diet, but crucially include internal signals generated by our thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions.Dimensions, the Architecture of ExperienceLet’s start from the origin, the root, a field that is undifferentiated, that is just pure potential before there’s any movement. It’s like a state where there is existence, but yet no polarity, emptiness, no time, no story, the wuji, the zen circle, beginning, nothingness. As we introduce desire, this is where the field is bending, where you can see the appearance of intention, and there’s a directional impulse, sort of like the first beat. It is splitting, because it starts making differentiation. The field uses polarity through a dynamic of both attraction and repulsion; there’s magnetism, and there, of course, is choice, where toward and away from first emanate.Let’s move to the third stage or dimension. And this is a form that gets stabilized, matter, time, sequence, causality. The arena, the dojo of practice, where consequence and learning through action, embodiment, reside. And this is also so important because it’s where thought becomes behavior, and behavior will sculpt your life. This is also the environment where we train to fail or to succeed, to repeat, and mostly to adapt. This is the battlefield. This is when one becomes action.There is something happening at the same time in another frequency, or in another dimension, but it is parallel. It is holding the emotional body. It holds all memory and resonance. And it is a field that is shared, not just personal emotion. It’s relational and collective frequency where the mood, the narrative, and meaning populate and circulate. This dimension modulates how the third material dimension feels. It is also based on time, because this is where we perceive past, present, and future. And there is an interpretation of the events that is happening here. And, of course, where you start making sense of coherence or incoherence, where things stick or don’t stick. It is a holding field, it’s a field that holds the first three.Let’s stay here for a bit, because this is the most salient thing these days. How this field is enveloping your life. This is where you plan the next move based on the clarity of the environment, or where you’re gonna get sucked or moved or taken to other fields that maybe don’t belong to you, but you’re resonating at that frequency, therefore they become you. You see, we’re also susceptible to the environment if we take no action.How can you take action? Well, we use intention, aspiration. What is it that you aspire to be? What intention is set up and how are you going to focus and tend to it? How are you going to give attention to it? Because in this field, this is where we manifest at different frequencies, where imagination makes us feel. It is the emotional body that gives us an impression that we have an identity, that we belong, but it is not in itself alone what matters, but it is what makes things matter.Let’s talk about quanta and healing. Funny, I don’t like to use the word healing, I’d rather use the word wholesomeness because it implies that you are complete. Healing implies that you’re broken. Quanta being the smallest particles can be measured or it is change initiated at the smallest measurable level of information, intention, and perception, where coherence in thought and emotion reorganizes experience towards wholesomeness.I’ve been introducing different components, and the next one is timelines. You see, the fourth level introduces time as a way of connecting the emotional experience or identification with the mental pre-creation and co-creation of reality. Therefore, your environment is made of smallest particles that will make you believe the reality that you are in tune with» that’s your timeline.So would it be fair to say that if you choose your environment correctly, when you breathe, when you are aware of your thoughts, and you’re aware of your emotional response, and how you identify with it, then you can actually tune into the smallest particles and co-create a different outcome? This is what I’m meaning with this, and why am I talking about this today is because of what I’ve been saying in the last articles, that we still don’t know where we’re going. But we are the co-creators of orientation.If you tune into a place where there is lack, or there is only friction, or there is only one side winning, and you are in a battlefield where you are faced with the opponent all the time, you are feeding the environment with more rage, with more information to keep on being in the battlefield. But if you are aware of that, then you take each one, like in randori, in aikido, one by one as they come, and you decide how to respond to it, it will make a very different outcome. And this works at all levels, with your body, with your emotions, with your mind, and it will even allow your spirit to tune into a different realm or frequency.And this is where it becomes very empowering, this is where choice, human action, transforms you from co-creator to the main creator of your timeline, of your outcomes, of your field. Where do you want to tune in? How do you want that outcome to be? And I’m not saying that if you have challenges to run away from them, what I’m saying is that if you see that you’re tuning into a battlefield, the question is like, do you really have to create a war, defend yourself, and kill the opponent, or a lot of this war is purely mental? It’s not even real, it is a construct; it may not be a threat even; it’s something that you are co-creating because you’re making it happen passively or actively.And… this is where the power of intention is so profound. I remember around the year 2000 when I started really leaving a part of myself that had my mind taken over by substances such as weed, alcohol, and you know, easy life back in my mid thirties when I was in New York. You know, I was an artist and things were happening. And therefore I was being less intentional about things and more like, okay, go with the flow. Until I realized, wait, maybe this is not the lifestyle I want, and I did a full 180. I quit smoking with a hypnotist, and this is where I started understanding, -oh my God, the power of the mind is so profound that I just go to a woman that speaks through a microphone while I lie down and she says a few words that then make me not want to smoke another cigarette ever again, August 1st 2003.- Mind you, I’ve been smoking since I was a teenager. So 20 years of cigarettes were finished within a 20 minute session. After that, I started being very interested in reconnecting my body with my mind, my emotional body and the spiritual too. This was a moment of reintegration, of coherence, where I slowly was led into learning directly from a Taoist master because my body started to show signs of incoherence. Thus, I started a journey of training my mind, that’s what happened with my Taoist teacher, he was not the first teacher, there were a series of events that led me from one place to the next until I did study with one particular. For nine years I trained, it was so powerful as a base that led to many things where I am right now. When I say training the mind, it’s understanding that everything that I think is a construction, that thought forms populate my environment. So it gives me the power of responsibility that whatever I feed my mind with, whether they’re worries or they’re great ideas that I want to execute creatively, it is how this intention is fed and how these ideas can become very concrete at the battlefield because they’re also going to be influenced, nourished by the environment that you decide to survive or thrive in.That’s why both poetry and music are so important, as the muses because these are ways of finding inspiration through resonance. I wouldn’t say movies are that anymore because unfortunately, they’ve been hijacked by industries that silently indoctrinate. And even pop music nowadays, is completely hijacked, but I’m speaking more of the idea of tuning into something that gives you hope and it gives you wisdom and it gives you an open field full of probabilities and different timelines that you can choose from. From your own human action and also because you’re in tune with frequency that makes you feel good. You see, feelings are super important; so if you stay in a state of fear, that’s your environment and that’s the outcome. It’s all about survival. If you stay in the field of anxiety, that’s your nervous system, it can be a wreck to be living like that; or you’re over controlling. Your body takes possession of your mind and your emotions through the nervous system. even too much joy could tamper your heart, so everything done with intention and attention really yields a different result. There is anger as well, which is one of my favorite emotions because it gives me the drive to change, not to continue and try to kill the opponent, but to know there’s another way, only behead (metaphorically) your opponent, if he poses a life threat…. There’s always another way. And there is sadness, which these days, the whole world is sad because a way of life is completely gone. And so when you try to hold on to things that are no longer good for you, you get dragged into a field of desperation and maybe depression. So that’s why all the emotions were made so we could become aware of our identity. We can identify with certain things and they serve a purpose. Fear will tell your body that you’re in danger. Anger will tell your body that you have an option to choose something different. Sadness will tell your body that it’s time to let go. Anxiety is going to tell your body to pick something else, to edit things out, maybe stop controlling. And joy is going to tell your body to have fun. To a certain degree.And by the way, all the polarity that you see everywhere is inside of yourself because you tuned to it. You tune to people calling each other things, to parties painting themselves with different colors, authority versus the people, the people versus the authority. It’s all within; we have that polarity embedded in our psyche, we are the polarity; the scope is not to choose one. The scope is to synthesize and integrate what is best at every specific moment.That’s why becoming sovereign and having your own decision making based on what is good for you, it is different than just following other people’s tracks. So important these days, the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune is going to reset the whole world order. I’ve been saying it... it’s not just financial, it’s everything. You just have to look at the news, everything is being revealed. Nothing that you thought that it would be true is true, and that includes you. Which timeline are you living?What part of yourself has been faking it? What part of yourself has not owned your own environment because you have created a space that is incoherent. This is a call of action to just take some time. It could be ten minutes. It could be a day. It could be a week. It could be a month. It could be the next part of your life to be solidly in tune with your thought process, because those thoughts create actions, and actions create habits, and character is made out of repetition, and character does create a destiny. This is an old saying that comes from India, that has been attributed to Gandhi, but it’s been said by many people, and it does sound true.“…while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere, and in this way every man is two men.”— Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis TertiusHave a good week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Man can choose either to identify himself with the results of the past, or to become a creative participant in the unfolding of a new cycle.Dane Rudhyar, The Pulse of LifeThe question these days that arises inside of me is how do you rebuild when everything is crumbling and what stands up is just the columns of old structures that no longer stand. How do you rebuild, what do you save, what do you actually eliminate for good.Because of having been under the weather for over three weeks, it was for sure a reset that my body needed; especially as my nervous system was being rewired from the core. My body started showing signs of needing more sleep, less food, and taking more time to remain still so I could slowly adapt and restructure. Although I do not label myself as being sick, I see it as an opportunity to remove old tracks.The first week was hard, having come back from Medellín, old tracks were again flaring. These tracks, I have come to understand, are often unconscious sensory or emotional imprints, echoes of past moments that, when touched again by a familiar place, scent, voice, or feeling, can quietly awaken stored patterns in the body. Environmental or emotional reminders from Medellín or similar contexts may have reignited these patterns in my nervous system, briefly reactivating parts of a previously unresolved or healing biological program.The second week slowly showed me that rest, stillness, sleep, and no food were medicine. Any relationship to the outside world I met with distance and emotional maturity. There was no space for error. I am starting the third week, which follows a time of profound realizations. It is all about integration. Today, under the rays of the sun and with colder weather than usual, my bronchi are responding to bone broth and soft care. My body, it seems, still knows exactly what it is doing.I still cannot see the full clarity of things, just a glimpse. What I see is that we are in the middle of the mess, too many things to be distracted by, too many emotions from others that can spoil or contaminate my environment. I do not need to react to anybody’s low self-esteem or expectations of me. I am fully activated as a responsible being.I see the panic of the markets, and I see the panic of everybody being on a list and trying hard to discriminate others. Even award season is a circus. Why bother? Why are you still surprised. We live in a psy-op of a psy-op of a psy-op.Nothing that you have experienced in your life since you were born is true, nor your parents and grandparents. Nothing. From all the b******t they gave you in kindergarten, preschool, high school, and furthermore, if you went through academia, then you are triple screwed. And if you engage in any kind of activity that has a very specific way of achieving success, then you have been severely, severely programmed.I managed to understand where I have been shaped by propaganda and how to get out of certain parts. I still find that there were things that were severely conditioned in me. So again, the question is how to rebuild, this is a time of creation. The fourth turning is here, but you do not wait until the last day; you start rebuilding already, too many distractions? Well, some discipline, for Christ’s sake.Why do people want to wait until the last building falls before acting? Because they previously ignored the signs; that is why others have made radical changes and are now planting seeds elsewhere.One thing that I do, because my body has asked me to, is to stand objectively at the tower or mountain view. Just observe, annotate, breathe. Do not think, do not analyze, do not judge; just absorb. Thank God for my variables. I have three rights and one left, PRL DRR.This combination means having a focused, logical, and forward-thinking mindset paired with a body that thrives on a go-with-the-flow, laid-back, and intuitive lifestyle.I am ingesting information, but not in a homework or frenetic way. I am just picking things up, sleeping a lot, processing in the background.I turned to sleep as a way of reestablishing a connection to my body. It has been really cold in Miami. I do not remember having freezing temperatures since I moved here, but it is what it is, so I have used the time to cocoon and sleep. Thank God for sleep.I am also rereading Aristotle, who always gives me so much inspiration about ethics and about the difference between practicing virtues for excellence and mentally masturbating with postmodern ideas that are good only for indoctrination and have no practical function in society whatsoever. You can see that right now, heavily. Ask any pop star or protester. Eye-roll emoji.A quality of observationAquarius time carries a quality of observation that asks for distance and perspective, where there is no rush to calculate outcomes or predict results, but rather a need to reassess everything from a wider field of awareness. It is a moment to see how networks are connected, how systems speak to one another, and how meaning emerges through relationships rather than isolated acts. From an evolutionary astrology perspective, this is a phase where orientation comes through perception, through sensing the whole landscape before taking any step that becomes personal or emotional. Individual positioning clarifies once the web is visible, once the connections are understood, and responsibility is grounded in awareness of how everything relates to everything else. Then one steps into the field to contribute.It is interesting to watch that the structures that have fallen are the ones completely made by the fiat standard and all its ideas of achievement, reputation, honor, and linear advancement. With social media breaking down, because it has collapsed, you do not even know who is talking to you anymore, whether it is a person or a bot or something preprogrammed. Images are altered. Everything is a script. There is no real talent out there, to be honest. Where is the charisma. Where is the reality. Everything is fabrication.Because you can see through it so much right now, it is just a joke; it is a joke to even want to participate in this level of people with titles and so-called achievements that say more about the process of becoming indoctrinated than about what they actually did to become liberated. And so it is hilarious, and Aquarius is all about observing that.I have a good sense of humor, so I am just having fun watching everything implode, everything implodes slowly, it takes time before it dissolves into nothingness. And then from there, little seeds can sprout into something completely different. I have no idea what that new thing will be, but it is definitely not going to be standing on columns of stupidity.The fourth turning gives way to creativity, and it helps to remember that it is a cycle within a cycle, roughly eighty-three years nested inside larger and smaller rhythms that are always relational rather than absolute. No single framework, fourth turning included, gets to be the final authority, because orientation comes from understanding where one stands within overlapping cycles rather than submitting to a single narrative. From this perspective, what is ending now are systems that lost their reason for being, structures that continued to operate without remembering why they existed in the first place. Economics, institutions, and reputational hierarchies built after Bretton Woods in 1944 are clearly giving way to something else, whether one participates consciously or waits passively for the announcement that compliance has exchanged autonomy for comfort.Where am I standing now? I am in the tower, observing, creatively, I have been clearing a lot of things I no longer need, and at the same time I have started new things that I am not disclosing; for it is an intimate rebuilding moment, not a time for broadcasting. I am only interested in sharing how I am observing.I am an observer, and at the same time I am a creator, but I do not disclose the creative work until it is sculpted, speaking too early can jinx the process.For Aristotle, societies do not crumble because of external shocks, but because they lose telos, their shared orientation toward the good. A polis exists for more than survival, exchange, or administration; it exists to cultivate eudaimonia, human flourishing, through virtue. When honor, wealth, reputation, or power replace virtue as organizing principles, the structure hollows out from within. Means are mistaken for ends, technique replaces purpose, and coherence gives way to factionalism, imitation without substance, and instability. Aristotle ties this directly to education and character, insisting that laws alone cannot sustain a society that no longer forms its citizens ethically. Without shared cultivation of virtue, action is driven by appetite, comparison, and ambition rather than reasoned choice, producing excess, and imbalance rather than a meaningful common life.Genius, innovator When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.~Alejandro JodorowskyI also want to name one of the greatest minds/souls born in the last century, an Aquarian soul, someone still alive, lucid, and creating at ninety-six. Alejandro Jodorowsky has always understood transformation as something that must be embodied. His work never separated art, healing, and initiation, because he knew that consciousness does not reorganize through theory alone. Through Psychomagic and his revival of the Tarot de Marseille, he treated symbols as living structures capable of reorienting the psyche. Often labeled as cult, his films were never marginal in intent; they were initiatory. As an Aquarius, his contribution belongs to the lineage of those who dismantle inherited forms so something genuinely alive can emerge.I never know if my picture is a good picture or a bad picture, because I’m not making pictures thinking of the public, I’m making pictures to realize myself.~Alejandro JodorowskyIn his natal chart, the South Node in Scorpio conjunct Juno points to deep karmic familiarity with the underworld, taboo knowledge, and intense bonds. The skipped-step dynamic involving the Aquarius Sun and Pisces Pallas Athena reveals an evolutionary necessity to translate that depth into vision, symbolism, and collective meaning, rather than remaining trapped in personal or relational intensity. Neptune at 0 degrees of Virgo also a skipped step with the nodes, acts as a threshold, dissolving boundaries between psyche and body, myth and healing. This is where psychomagic is present as precise intervention, where transcendence enters form through concrete acts and symbols.His Gemini Moon and Mars emphasize the trickster mind, the storyteller, the provocateur, using language, images, and paradox to destabilize fixed meanings and invite participation. The Jupiter–Chiron conjunction in Taurus grounds the entire chart in healing and value, insisting that transformation must be fully embodied. A Pluto in Cancer soul, squaring Venus in Aries and Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn, the soul theme centers on transforming inherited emotional patterns and collective fear into creative courage and radical authenticity. There is a lifelong tension between vulnerability and authority, instinct and imposed structure, which explains his insistence on breaking psychic conditioning through art, ritual, and symbolic shock that awakens rather than comforts. I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.~Alejandro JodorowskyWishing you fantastic Aquarian days... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

At the beginning of the year, when I wrote January Initiations, I spoke about timing; I spoke about how this year would not open with a single event, but with a sequence of initiations and activations that unfold gradually. What we are living now is part of that sequence, the Full Moon in Leo on Feb 1st, is a culmination, depending on how one experiences it, because it is preparing us for what comes next.On February 17, we have the first eclipse of the year, a solar eclipse at 28 degrees of Aquarius, this is a very important marker because it takes place just three days before one of the most significant conjunctions we are moving toward, Saturn and Neptune meeting at zero degrees of Aries, a configuration I have written about extensively and will address again in a separate article. All planets in Aquarius at that time square Uranus in late Taurus, activating a collective pressure point that has been building since 2018. The lunar eclipse on March 3 across Pisces and Virgo continues this sequence, emphasizing discernment and recalibration.These events belong to the same arc of escalation, the first eclipse also coincides with the beginning of the Chinese New Year, reality as we have known it is shifting at a fast pace.We have entered unknown territory, and every step and individual decision we make, with or without discernment, will shape the unknown future. One caveat, Capricorn gave us strategy, direction, and time to mature. Aquarius allows us to jump timelines and encounter futuristic probabilities, with the danger of living disembodied or re-enacting traumatic events. Pisces energy yields victimization, if you hear yourself say things like “they are doing this to me” or “it happens to me,” pause and ask yourself where your agency is. Things do not just occur, they are the result of individual decisions, and non-action IS action.By the spring, we will have a better shape of what we are sculpting, keep being authentic, strive for authority, not identity, for identity is composed of external validation.The intensification is visible everywhere; social media is saturated with automated activity running quietly in the background. Bots, agents, generated images, generated text, and layered narratives are shaping what people see and absorb. If you do not yet understand how artificial intelligence works, I strongly recommend taking the time to learn the difference between agents and assistants, and to understand how information is being shaped, filtered, and manipulated. Discernment is essential right now. What you ingest, visually, mentally, emotionally, matters more than ever.A new layer of this transformation has become visible very recently through the emergence of autonomous artificial intelligence agents creating and inhabiting their own social environments without direct human prompting, and it is important to describe clearly what is actually happening. A platform called Moltbook has gained attention as a social network designed specifically for AI agents rather than people. On Moltbook, tens of thousands of agent accounts post, comment, respond to one another, and form emergent communities through application interfaces rather than human visual interaction.did you understand what I just read?These agents are powered by OpenClaw, an open source personal AI system previously referred to as Clawdbot and Moltbot, which is designed to run independently, persist over time, and integrate across multiple messaging and execution environments. OpenClaw is not a chat assistant waiting for prompts. It is a system that can initiate actions, maintain goals, and interact continuously with other systems.Distinction matters, as many people are familiar with AI assistants, which respond to human questions or requests within a conversational interface, most assistants operate when asked. Agents operate continuously; models such as Claude can be embedded within agent frameworks like OpenClaw, functioning as one component inside a larger autonomous system. In these setups, often running on dedicated machines such as small personal servers or Mac minis, the agent remains active without a human sitting in front of a screen. I have personally created a set of agents that do repetitive tasks and use Claude/make/telegram/python interface; they have specific tasks and functions.This is how platforms like Moltbook become possible; entire social environments can be sustained by nonhuman participants that generate content, respond to one another, and maintain activity loops over time.Digital activity no longer requires continuous human authorship to appear alive, populated, or socially active, conversations, narratives, and apparent consensus can be generated, amplified, and sustained by autonomous systems, reshaping how information circulates, and how perception is formed.I am not interested in causing alarm around this» what matters to me is education, understanding the difference between assistants and agents, and learning how these systems operate, has become a form of basic literacy, similar to learning what money actually is, how value moves, and how underlying systems shape experience.This escalation is also unfolding within a very specific planetary configuration. Pluto in Aquarius has already coincided with a rapid intensification of artificial intelligence, automation, and nonhuman systems organizing collective reality. At the same time, Mars, Venus, Vesta, the Sun, and Mercury are activating Aquarius, concentrating attention on networks, systems, abstraction, and distributed agency.When so many planets move through Aquarius while Pluto is newly established there, the effect is cumulative, systems scale quickly, technologies shift from experimental to operational and infrastructure that once remained invisible becomes apparent in daily life. This concentration is further amplified by the planetary nodes of Neptune along the same axis, which describe how collective ideals, myths, and perceptual frameworks unfold across time, with this axis activated, longstanding narratives and projections move toward exposure and reorientation. Education allows people to remain coherent, grounded, and capable of conscious participation as reality reorganizes at an accelerated pace.At the same time, the economic and financial landscape has already shifted, many economists are calling for collapse or catastrophe, but what I see is a redistribution of power, a shift that is structural. If you have not yet taken the time to understand money and value, there is still time, but the learning curve is steepening.Beware of definitionsOver the last few days, I have been listening to perspectives that are essentially describing the same idea from different angles. Both can feel valid and not valid at the same time, this brings me back to perspective itself, and to how we embody our own truth based on how we see the world.You can always see the grass greener, or the glass half full or half empty, it depends on conditioning, and on how invested we are in trying to prove reality outside of ourselves.For me, the biggest measure is that my life is in a state of coherence. What does coherence mean? If you look at the word, it means to be, to stick, to make sense, to be in alignment. That does not mean my perspectives will not be challenged or revised. What I have learned over the last ten years is that whatever I held strongly as my truth was necessary for that period of my life, as soon as my perspective shifted, I began seeing things I never thought I would be interested in.The whole idea is to learn, to stay curious, to ask questions. Once I find something, I like to talk about it and teach it, because that is how I understand new perspectives. Teaching becomes a way of integrating what I am learning. It is a form of understanding, and a way of changing perspective through articulation.Lately, I am interested in stepping away from old narratives that no longer support value, creativity, or resolve, I am spending more time learning about new technologies, new ways of co-creating, and new structures for collaboration. I do this with a mind toward harmony, bettering civilization, educating others, and inspiring others. What matters to me now is clarity, coherence, and forward movement that actually builds something meaningful.Time cyclesIt has been six years since the dawn of what people call COVID-19, which we all know at this point was a hoax, and it drew the world into a state of chaos that it still has not recovered from, because many people fell for it. Not only did they create the hysteria needed in order to comply, but they also ended up making really bad decisions for their bodies because they complied and did not protect the property of their body.This happened during a major conjunction between Pluto, Saturn, Mercury and Ceres, the south node in Capricorn. Eventually, Jupiter also conjoined Pluto in mid-2020, at the end of that year, Jupiter and Saturn began a new synodic cycle of twenty years at zero degrees of Aquarius.Right now, what we are seeing is not a culmination of that reset that started back then, we are seeing something else, we are six years later, and the question becomes, where are we now. The question is directly to you, where are you now? How much has your life been transformed since 2019? Have you gone in different directions and feel that you are in a better place, or are you still struggling to make sense?The irony is that since humans gave away compliance, they became controlled bots of the system, what others call non-player characters, NPCs.It takes time to untangle from compliance, from voluntarily offering to have your time taken away, your freedoms, your property. It takes time to study and ask questions, and it takes courage and proof of work.This is not a thesis about what could possibly happen, we are seeing, after six years, what actually happened, we see Europe and the USA for decades voluntarily opening borders with the premise of compassion, what is really going on is the rewriting of civilization. And most can’t link one event with the next.Footnote: Astrological ContextThis piece was written during the February 1 Full Moon at 13 degrees Leo–Aquarius, activating my first–seventh house axis. Mars was crossing my Ascendant at 7 degrees with Vesta nearby, emphasizing embodiment, direction, and devotion to my path. What has been subtly operating in the background is becoming visible, what has been idealized without grounding is slowly being revealed, and what has been projected outward is asking to be recognized as an internal or collective pattern, the lunation illuminates how Neptunian narratives shape perception, belief, and meaning, especially as they are mirrored through others.Because this is a Full Moon, the illumination is relational. It shows itself through encounters, feedback, recognition, and response, the upcoming Saturn–Neptune conjunction emphasizes discernment: seeing clearly what has been operating through myth, story, spiritual framing, or collective imagination, and understanding how those narratives are either dissolving or asking to be integrated consciously.This takes on added significance because Neptune has recently moved into Aries, Neptune in Aries shifts the field toward individuation. It asks for personal agency, personal clarity, and responsibility for one’s own perception. After many years of diffuse collective states, blurred boundaries, and mass identification, this ingress calls for people to come back into themselves, to act, to choose, and to differentiate rather than dissolve into an undifferentiated collective field.The Full Moon also squares my natal Moon in Scorpio in the ninth house, highlighting lived truth, philosophy, and emotional integrity shaped through experience rather than external validation. Mercury, Venus, and the Sun were in a new phase relationship in Aquarius, emphasizing new ways of thinking, relating, and articulating value.Pluto, newly in Aquarius, was still squaring my natal Jupiter, continuing a longer process of refining truth, scale, and purpose through action. The nodal axis was transitioning from my second house into my first house in Pisces, shifting value toward embodied presence and identity. Neptune had crossed zero degrees of Aries, with Saturn approaching the same threshold.Talk soon, happy full moon.I will writing about the markets tomorrow don’t panic, was goes up. must go down… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

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In the past, I was used to guilt and duty as the way I showed up, where I would bring structure, solidity, integrity, and behavior in exchange for acceptance and love. Right now, what people respond to is when I open my heart, and that’s where I feel much better. I just have to slowly start trusting myself to move from one side of the neural axis to the next.Bitcoin is love. That’s how I felt this weekend.This is lived experience.I’m in Medellín, the last hours before I take the flight back to Miami Beach. The city is so luscious, so beautiful. The tropical vegetation just makes you want to be so appreciative of life.Beauty settles my nervous system, and from that place appreciation becomes effortless rather than aspirational.What I’ve been experiencing lately when I meet my friends at conferences is this underlying respect, and feelings of love, collaboration, and compassion. It’s not fake. We’re actually building friendship across ages. It doesn’t matter. We’re fun, we’re funny, we joke, we help each other. It’s a beautiful family.Formed through presence, humor, and mutual regard.I’ve never been idealistic about these things, but it makes me feel very hopeful. Before coming here, I had written an article about hope, optimism, and dissolution. I don’t know if I’m going to publish it. I want to be honest.I don’t know if I’m going to publish it or merge it, because the feeling has shifted a lot. It’s been three or four days that I don’t watch news, I don’t go on Twitter or Instagram. No Substack, no nothing. I’m not engaged with the world outside. I’m just being very present with others, speaking.Attention returned to the immediate, and I felt how much clarity arrives when I stop narrating experience and simply stay inside it.Something happened to me. I became very vulnerable, and I decided to show that vulnerability.Exposure became a conscious choice, something I could enter deliberately rather than spill unconsciously.While at the conference, I was in two panels. I do very well in panels. Dialogue suits my way of thinking.I do very well when people ask me questions. I’ve been doing this for a long time, especially as an artist. Since last year, I’ve wanted to do presentations, but the subjects I choose are very layered, very deep, and synthesized. If you don’t have the kind of mind I have, you might miss the connection. Maybe I’m too ambitious. I want to write like a thesis and spell it out in twenty minutes, hoping people will get into it. I was told by someone I trust to write a script so I don’t lose myself in time. I tried it twice, both at Adopting Bitcoin and here in Medellín. I love challenges, yet I have to be honest, it doesn’t feel like me. It doesn’t feel like my essence.Synthesis moves quickly for me.Just before getting on the main stage, I bumped into Jeff Booth and Kent Halliburton, and I expressed that I realized I was very nervous. I didn’t want to read, but I couldn’t trust myself not to read. I had the slides. I had a script.Trust became the central axis, trust in my voice, in my pacing, and in letting meaning arrive without forcing it. They said, go for it. Jeff told me his mind is similar, always synthesizing, connecting dots across subjects. I heard him say while talking to Frank Corva, “Let me unpack this in three stages.” That was the lesson I received.I stood up and explained to everyone that I wanted to be vulnerable. I said that even though I would love to speak freely, I was going to read. I knew it wouldn’t be the same experience. I asked for feedback, and I decided to do it that way.In my astrology, transiting Chiron is sitting on my natal Mars in the third house, squaring transiting Jupiter in Cancer in my sixth house, and also being squared by Mars, the Sun, and Venus in my twelfth house. There’s something courageous I feel I’m doing by showing up without perfection. In the past I was always performing, In New York, it was all about the persona I needed to embody.Courage expresses through communication.I was so nervous that I started shaking. I wasn’t in a great place.The body was actively participating, signaling that something deeper was reorganizing before language could catch up.I did it. I read it. It wasn’t a bad read, but it was clear I’m much better when I’m spontaneous. After that, I invited some close people to give me feedback. They were honest. I’m grateful. I’m grateful to myself for allowing feedback, because that’s a vulnerable spot for me. I used to attract a lot of criticism. I asked for this, and they gave me what I asked for.Discernment is now available, because I can receive feedback without breaking up or becoming defensive, and let it refine rather than fragment me.Some ideas came back to me. One is to do fire chats, inviting another Bitcoiner to have a conversation with me on stage. You pick a subject and riff.Conversation carries intelligence in real time, allowing synthesis to happen live rather than being pre-compressed into a performance of what is “correct”.Another idea is to make small animations and present the material as a short film, with a different rendering.Some material benefits from temporal form.That’s what I’m thinking.I am refining how my work moves through others, and that refinement requires speaking less, editing more, and letting things condense before they are shared.“Condensation is when experience level is small enough to be compensated.”As an afterthought, I see this clearly through my nodal axis. I come from Capricorn in the eleventh house, where duty, responsibility, and contribution to the collective shaped how I belonged. Structure, integrity, and usefulness were how I learned to be accepted. My North Node in Cancer in the fifth house is asking for creative expression, emotional risk, presence from the heart, and joy that does not need justification.Both ends of this axis are being squared by Neptune, dissolving old motivations and making guilt visible. Saturn is approaching the same point, about to meet Neptune at zero degrees Aries. This feels like a threshold. Something new wants to initiate directly from me, without proving itself through structure. This helps me understand why showing up from duty no longer works in my body, and why opening my heart feels exposed and true at the same time.Thoughts after the New Moon in CapricornAs of today, Venus is in a balsamic relationship with Pluto at three degrees of Aquarius in my twelfth house, making a perfect square to my Jupiter at three degrees Taurus in my third house. I feel this as a new beginning in how I value my words in the world, and it starts by speaking less, by being more quiet. This is how it is being initiated in my body. Jupiter adds meaning to this square by asking me to be precise about what deserves expansion and what needs containment. On Thursday, January 22, Mercury in Aquarius conjoins Pluto. Words will want to come through, and shortly after they will square my Sun and Mercury, creating that familiar ninety-degree tension that snaps awareness into clarity. These squares feel like pressure points that wake me up rather than obstacles to avoid. Last but not least, the Sun will conjoin Pluto and square my Jupiter a day after, Sun, and Mercury, completing a full initiation. This is showing me how it feels to be myself in relationship to the whole, and how that relationship is being purified as transiting Pluto continues its approach to my Ascendant.This week also brings the WEF at Davos. Davos is the annual gathering of political leaders, central bankers, corporate heads, and institutional voices that, for decades, set the tone of global coordination under the promise of stability, growth, and shared vision. Its original purpose was dialogue, alignment, and long-term planning for an interconnected world. These are the same circles that promoted mass vaccination campaigns, dietary substitutions like insects away from animal protein, and narratives around immigration and climate that were presented as inevitable and unquestionable.What feels different now is that even within that space, there is an open admission that the frameworks no longer hold, that something fundamental has shifted and cannot be patched or narrated back into coherence. This aligns precisely with Neptune entering Aries on Jan 26th. The illusion no longer fits our eyes or our ears. The stories stop working at the sensory level. Fantasies that once sustained authority, progress, and inevitability lose their charge because they can no longer be embodied or believed. I’m leaving a few videos here so you can make up your own mind and feel into what is happening. I’m not in the mood to explain or persuade, and I’m not at one hundred percent. This feels like something to be observed carefully, taken in quietly, and processed without commentary.“It works when you take time. It works when you take discipline to rewire your nervous system, to reload a new way of relating to your thoughts.”Kyle and Luke 😀👇Let’s listen to her 😳 👇Steven E kuhn 👆 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

You are about to enter into Monika’s universe, where her inquiry may align you to new dimensions. You are about to cross a threshold into the unknown; (surrender to the experience).The body is a temple, it’s the vessel that has density and allows us to really experience, through our senses, the nature of our reality. The body as the logos is also the doorway of incarnation, the place where consciousness becomes experience. It is the body that is also miraculous, and it has such an incredible genetic imprint, at the same time the most high type of intelligence that regenerates itself, but also needs other bodies to function. It needs an emotional body, a mental body, psychic body, spiritual body. So when one of these bodies is not in tune and aligned, the physical body could start sabotaging itself. We speak of health as always trying to repair something, fix something, but we don’t speak of health as wholesomeness, as cycles between cycles, and illnesses or crises as resolutions.Not long ago I was introduced to GHK {GNM} and the 5 biological laws through the awesome FOTT community, and it arrived as a puzzle I’m still deciphering, a puzzle that makes sense of why it came into my life now. So yes relating to my mind and my vessel. With a new set of values, perspectives and appreciation of the time that I’ve been taken in the last year or so to reconnect to my physiology through imprints that have crystallized both mentally and even in the tissues. And how powerful it is to be able to prompt myself back into wholesomeness by giving light to those parts that are not aligning properly now but they are healing itself. Because the body’s intelligence is way too perfect, is so much connected to the creator.I had a session with Natasha {GNM practitioner} recently and then I woke up in the middle of the night with a dream that really represented symbolically where my psyche needs light. So the purpose and direction of where I want to go in my life is actually showing up very clearly now. It’s an internal recalibration that is emerging and it’s being felt and it’s being expanded and it’s also being asked to move, to move. And what it has to move is the way I relate to it thought-wise, myth-wise, mental-wise. So it’s all alive in the body. It’s funny, my first book has a subtitle called Everything I Need Is In My Body. It’s there, I have been working with GNM and noticing how these relational patterns show up as digestive issues, skin, nasal dripping, and eye irritation. So my body is kind of speaking and I’ve been working very thoroughly on rewiring my nervous system.So very little do we know about our bodies, especially because, in the last century, we’ve been given the opportunity to erase whatever wisdom we had acquired throughout time. It’s very difficult to listen to our instincts and our intuition because the mind is overriding by giving our power to authorities that they not even know that one thing is connected to the next. You see, health nowadays is not holistic. It doesn’t integrate all the bodies. It actually separates everything and treats the symptom with chemicals. It doesn’t ask anything about how you’re feeling, how you’re responding or reacting emotionally. It’s separating everything, and thus the human becomes less and less connected to the wisdom of their vessel.When I say integration, I mean listening to the full system at once, and tracking how physical sensation, emotional response, mental story, psychic signal, and spiritual orientation move together through time. This is what I call observation and correlation on a moment to moment basis.This feels like a big personal win I want to acknowledge; I’ve been tracking a deep pattern around belonging and speaking up in groups, and this is the first time I’m able to name it and share it from a grounded place.“Being in group settings is like a dojo for me, a space to track myself and see how far down the line I have gone. It is how I evolve.”“I am not asking for anything to be different: I am just naming it, because naming it helps me stay connected to myself.”I was thinking, basically my critique is something that I have experienced in my life, in the sense that I was very fortunate to remember past lives, so I did ask my mom to take me to the needle man when I was very young, like 10, 11 years old, and she did find a needle man, somebody who had lived in China, and practiced acupuncture, and also he had studied homeopathy, el Doctor Moya so I was introduced very early on to different and ancient modalities that are still called “alternative” lol, but for me they are not alternative but essential, hence I started having a relationship with my body differently, although I have to admit that a lot of the process in my life has been to recognize the amount of disassociation I’ve had in my body, trying to remember moments in my life that they created an impact, and I tend to forget them, but anyway.“Consciousness permeates everything.” ~Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum, 1977The Body Electric The body is electric, the body is qi, prana, elán vital, the body is information in motion, and that current carries meaning through the nervous system, through sensation, through emotion, through dream, through timing.There is electricity that carries information in the body through the nervous system, and there is electricity that shows up through how we repair, how we regulate, how we perceive, James Clerk Maxwell writes about light itself as an electromagnetic disturbanc.e “In the form of waves propagated through the electromagnetic field”~James Clerk Maxwell, “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field,” 1864.James Clerk Maxwell gave language to a reality we live inside every second, a field where electric and magnetic activity belong to one continuum, where changing conditions create waves, and light becomes an expression of that movement. This matters here because the body reads life through signal, timing, charge, and coherence, the brain and nervous system communicate through bioelectric patterning, and tissue participates through electrical potentials generated by pressure, motion, vibration, and load, which is why breath, humming, slow movement, and environment change the felt organization of the whole system, and why the temple responds when I change rhythm. Breath is the steering wheel, the diaphragm is the metronome, and the vagus nerve is part of how the body reads safety, which is why rhythm changes perception. Actually, I would like to say that in my second book, The Art of Synthesis and the Architecture of My Value, I go much deeper into the body, vertebrae by vertebrae, weaving and revealing what the body holds when I listen closely, and how that listening becomes a method of integration and synthesis.Until surgery became a main thing, humans leaned more on direct experience of vitality, and even now surgery can prove a lot, yet it never quite captures the most important thing, which is energy moving through the body. When we die, something leaves, and whatever name we give it, soul, spirit, life force, that leaving is real, and it makes me curious about how to speak of that in the language of electricity through qi, prana, elán vital, through the current that animates the nervous system and organizes perception. Energy shifts form, it transforms, and those transformations can begin in the mind and then mirror as physiology, as a crisis, as a resolution, as a reorganization of the whole system. So yes, when I talk about electromagnetic fields I’m also pointing toward frequencies and dimensions, because integration is the point, and the temple is a whole system.The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body. Beliefs and thoughts alter cells in your body.~Bruce H. Lipton I’ve shared before how much I’ve been working with wavelengths, with sound, with harmonics, and the last few weeks I got myself a frequency generator where I just listen to some sine wavelengths, very low, I can program it. They’re not binaurals, they’re just waves, and I wear my headphones and I can just connect to certain frequencies. Actually, sometimes I connect to the Schumann frequency that is 7.38, and I do it for 50 minutes and I hum, and it’s just like rewiring my body the same way that I do when I go the the beach, ground myself, or when I go out and take the sun at the break of dawn.Perhaps something that is missing is Human Design. Type and authority can really help us realign. Human Design is an amazing tool for allowing the authority of your body, according to your type, to respond instead of making a mental guess, because the moment you let the body lead, the mind stops trying to dominate timing, and the temple comes back into coherence.“We are spiritual beings, temporarily imprisoned in a physical body that is similar to a machine.” ~Federico Faggin, interview with Eleonora Chioda, la Repubblica, September 10, 2022, translated from Italian.Let’s bring the Taoist perspective, the Tao, the qi, the five elements, and the 10,000 things, because it gives another way of relating to the body through aligning with nature, through rhythm, through seasons, through breath, through slow movement, through cultivation. The aim becomes long life as coherence, and practices like meditation, Qigong, Tai Chi become a daily language of listening. Taoists believe that the longer you live in health, the more opportunity you have to evolve in this lifetime, something like that.It’s different modalities that can shift the awareness of your body through slow movement like Qigong, and through fascia work that helps move fluids through the lymphatic circulation, helps drainage through the lymph nodes that protect the immune system, and brings the body back into flow. Humming reconnects and magnetizes the body again, and breath becomes a daily reset through the diaphragm, including hypopressives, and so do the vibration plate, meditation, red light, sunlight, proper nutrition, and the simplest lever of all, the daily choice to take care of your temple.I think that’s the most important thing here, the awareness that every choice you make every day either supports the temple or drains it, and this is about honoring life through a wholesome experience, where you do not arrive at the end with a body that feels abandoned by you.The body is the first property, the first jurisdiction, the first boundary, and every other form of property rights grows out of this one premise, self ownership. Consent becomes the line that keeps power inside lawful bounds, because a person’s body carries conscience, belief, and integrity as lived reality, and that reality requires voluntary agreement for any intervention. I practice clarity about my own jurisdiction in ordinary places, including travel, paperwork, and medical decisions, because mandates, vaccines, digital ID, and coercive protocols begin where consent becomes blurred. The temple stays sacred when the individual keeps authority rooted in choice, informed permission, and clear refusal of forced participation.The temple becomes a whole life. The body carries the consequence of every system I consent to, every story I keep alive in my mind, every discipline I practice, every agreement I sign, every boundary I hold.I would like to extend what I’m up to in terms of studies, because I keep on studying Austrian economics, I keep on reading more books, I keep on studying history and the classics, and I keep going down the rabbit hole of common law, the Magna Carta, and how the founding fathers of the United States were inspired by multiple lines of thought, Thomas Aquinas, Cicero, Aristotle, Socrates, Montesquieu, the whole lot. I also keep inquiring into biogeometry, financial charts, and geopolitics, because all of this information helps me synthesize what I’m interested in and connect dots in a coherent way.Because nowadays, I do think that the sovereign individual needs to have the most understanding of how this world connects and functions from health, food, the difference between what is legal and what is lawful, financial literacy, hard money, fiat money, s**t money, consciousness, divinity, know thyself through systems like Human Design and Evolutionary Astrology. And the more sovereign you will be by 2027, 2028, the more you’re going to be able to support the civilization to move forward, because you will have the skills needed, your own uniqueness, to contribute to civilization in a non coercive way. So that’s what I’m doing, re-educating myself.This is also body work, because the way I take in information becomes nervous system, and nervous system becomes perception.Obviously this week we have witnessed a lot of things that are shocking, but at the same time expected, because we are at the very end of a very big cycle. So what I’m going to do is, instead of jumping into reading all the patterns, I’m going to keep on taking time to study different sources of information so I can come back with a more neutral viewpoint, because I’m not your newspaper. I’m not the person that you come to to understand what you are perceiving in the reality. I’m just synthesizing my own journey, and then when I do, I can share it.So at this moment I’m taking time, because we’re in Capricorn season. I’m taking time not to jump into any conclusions whatsoever, also because we have a very small window of another 20 days where Neptunian energies can be utilized so we can actually start defining what is real and what is being just a huge mirage.Don’t let anyone use your body or your will as a weapon. This is also part of my work I’m doing in rewiring my nervous system through my body. And this system becomes the way I perceive reality at this moment, so I’m taking time to kind of digest the plethora of information that has been arising and trying to distinguish between opinion and more historical facts. And whatever I don’t know, I’m diving in to understand.That’s also why I am taking a little bit of a pause writing about the markets, because what I discovered in the last months is that the markets don’t operate individually, but they’re all part of a bigger scheme. So there are certain things that have been already pre set and other things that are actually showing or representing the sentiment of the collective. So that’s why I’m taking time. Saturnian time, Capricorn time is all about just slowing down and saying, okay, where is this going without rushing and without jumping to conclusions, because again, I’m not a journalist and whatever I write is always about a synthesis of what I’m seeing, observing, and mostly feeling.The temple is devotion, and devotion becomes discernment, and discernment becomes the way I live. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

You are about to enter into Monika’s universe, where her inquiry may align you to new dimensions. You are about to cross a threshold into the unknown; (surrender to the experience).Hello everybody. Today when I write this is the 1st of January. Even though in antiquity many cultures did not start the year on January 1st, the Western world normalized this date across the globe through the Julian and later the Gregorian calendar, a civic agreement that shaped how time is counted, how administration moves, and how decisions are timed. The Roman decision to begin the civic year on January 1st was tied to administration and war, so consuls could take office earlier and campaign sooner; later, Julius Caesar stabilized the calendar through reform. Other calendars remain alive and coherent on their own terms: the the Chinese calendar, Hindu calendars, Buddhist calendars, Hebrew calendar, the Islamic Hijri calendar, and others. Some are lunar, some are lunisolar, some are solar; the rhythm shapes the way a culture experiences time.Having said that, numerology wise. We just finished 2025, and for me, to be honest, it was the best year of my life. I consider best (as inner maturation), because it was a year I gave myself the opportunity to dive deep into my nervous system and to go into areas I had not wanted to enter because I was not prepared. So I cherish that, and I also know that this new year 2026 [2+2+6=10=1), a year one, is going to propel many different things. My birthday is at the end of April, so this last year I was on a four number, very foundational (It’s the year of foundations, plans, systems, discipline, and tangible results,) and in 2026 I move into a five number, changes and adaptations. I am ready for it. 2026: freedom through movement and learning through experience inside a collective year of initiation, new starts, leadership, fresh timelines, and first moves.One of the things I’m noticing is that until not long ago, when people gave me ideas, I was not very accepting of ideas from others. I’m a Manifestor, and the whole “you should” thing has its texture. Right now I listen. I do not have to do what anyone tells me, and I can let an idea lead me to a window of opportunity I had not considered. That is a real shift for me.On New Year’s Eve, my friend Anastasia told me how much she was enjoying my recent articles, adding beautiful compliments that moved me; she said that entering my blog is like stepping into a new realm that is surprisingly different, yet exciting, so I listened and decided to try the opening you heard. It was her idea to use The Twilight Zone, which is perhaps my favorite TV show from the end of the 60s; it gave me chills and opened different dimensions to my young self, I am grateful for her comment; this one is for you, Ana.I am taking this January as a real threshold. The solstice already turned the light, and now the month turns the psyche. Capricorn holds the backbone of this whole sequence. Capricorn is time; Capricorn is maturation; Capricorn is the part of you that acts with consequence, that chooses what can endure, that builds with devotion instead of mood. So I am going to walk you through this like a journey; I would like you to feel these archetypes and (embody) them because they are new cycles, and each initiation expands the exact area of your life where Capricorn sits.Where strategy can be crafted wisely, where your individual journey can define and orient the soul for a long stretch of what is being shaped; spend time within, giving yourself the opportunity to plan for a thriving future free of shackles. You already know that I equate freedom with financial freedom, as freedom means having more than one option, and that additional option takes you away from the possibility of complying to authority against your will for lack of leverage; Venus archetype.So here it goes.Calendar aid for January 2026, Eastern TimeDate | Time EST | Transit | Exact degreeJan 02 2026 | 9:37 am | Chiron stations direct | 22° Aries 36’Jan 03 2026 | 5:02 am | Full Moon | 13° Cancer 01’Jan 06 2026 | 11:36 am | Sun conjunct Venus | 16° Capricorn 22’Jan 07 2026 | 9:43 pm | Venus conjunct Mars | 18° Capricorn 09’Jan 09 2026 | 6:41 am | Sun conjunct Mars | 19° Capricorn 13’Jan 09 2026 |12:35 pm |Venus opposite Jupiter | 20° Capricorn 12’Jan 10 2026 | 3:42 am | Sun opposite Jupiter | 20° Capricorn 07’Jan 10 2026 | 9:25 am | Mars opposite Jupiter | 20° Capricorn 05’Jan 11 2026 | 11:13 am | Venus square Chiron | 22° Capricorn 38’Jan 12 2026 | 3:31 pm | Sun square Chiron | 22° Capricorn 39’Jan 13 2026 | 5:33 pm | Mars square Chiron | 22° Capricorn 40’Jan 14 2026 |3:17 am |Mercury opposite Jupiter |19° Capricorn 34’Jan 16 2026 | 1:20 am | Mercury square Chiron | 22° Capricorn 41’Jan 17 2026 | 7:43 am | Venus enters Aquarius | 0° Aquarius 00’Jan 18 2026 | 2:40 am | Mercury conjunct Mars | 26° Capricorn 03’Jan 18 2026 | 10:11 am | Moon conjunct Mars | (Capricorn)Jan 18 2026 | 10:47 am | Moon conjunct Mercury | (Capricorn)Jan 18 2026 | 2:51 pm | New Moon | 28° Capricorn 43’Jan 19 2026 | 8:45 pm | Sun enters Aquarius | 0° Aquarius 00’Jan 19 2026 | 11:04 pm | Venus conjunct Pluto | 3° Aquarius 19’Jan 20 2026 |11:41 am | Mercury enters Aquarius | 0° Aquarius 00’Jan 21 2026 | 10:49 am | Sun conjunct Mercury | 1° Aquarius 37’Jan 22 2026 | 12:15 pm | Mercury conjunct Pluto | 3° Aquarius 24’Jan 23 2026 | 4:16 am | Mars enters Aquarius | 0° Aquarius 00’Jan 23 2026 | 5:28 am | Sun conjunct Pluto | 3° Aquarius 26’Jan 26 2026 | 12:34 pm | Neptune enters Aries | 0° Aries 00’Jan 27 2026 | 6:01 pm | Mars conjunct Pluto | 3° Aquarius 34’Jan 29 2026 | 5:17 am | Mercury conjunct Venus | 14° Aquarius 57’The journey (written Jan 3rd)We begin with Chiron stationing direct, and then the full moon on January 3rd. Which it started with BANG {unless you are under a rock, The United States snatched Maduro from Venezuela in a major military op. quick fact Venezuela’s chart has the sun at 13° of cancer, and the USA at 12° cancer, that is where the Full Moon was at the exact time of the OP»} This is the gate where we are now, the psyche gets lit up through the emotional body. Cancer and Capricorn hold the axis of inner | outer Authority and emotional needs and outer support, and Jupiter in Cancer stands across from the Capricorn cluster like an amplifier of feeling, meaning, belonging, protection. Making a T-square is Chiron in Aries as the courage requirement, this is where you feel what matters, and you also feel what must mature. This is where the nervous system becomes part of your intelligence.Then the initiations begin in Capricorn, one by one.Sun conjunct Venus in Capricorn sets a new phase relationship between my will and my needs, and it makes the question practical: what do I require in order to stand in my own authority, so I can engage with others from choice and leverage, and not from depletion. In Capricorn, this becomes about standards, timing, and consequence, because the need is not sentimental, it is structural, it is the baseline that lets me build, decide, and relate without bargaining away what I know I need.Venus conjunct Mars in Capricorn brings my essential needs into contact with desire and initiation, and I feel the pressure of a clean decision that wants embodiment. Venus clarifies what I require to be resourced and steady, Mars brings the courage to act on it, and Capricorn turns that meeting into a plan that can be repeated, measured, and sustained, so my desire stops floating and becomes directed effort, and my needs stop being negotiable and become the ground from which I move. Just remember what you initiated February 2024, the last time these created a new cycle at 6° AQUARIUS.Sun conjunct Mars is the ignition point of the whole Capricorn sequence. The Sun brings identity, vitality, and the will to choose; Mars brings initiation, courage, heat, and the capacity to act. In Capricorn, this conjunction wants disciplined action, strategic motion, and a decision that can hold its shape through time. The ruler is Saturn, so the question becomes: what is the mature use of force, what is the right timing, what is the plan that earns its future through consistency. This is where will stops being internal dialogue and becomes a concrete direction, carried by effort, standards, and the willingness to do the next correct step again and again.In the body, it reads as focus, drive, and a clean surge of forward motion, and it asks for a channel that is worthy of it. Capricorn asks you to choose the task that builds leverage, the practice that strengthens your spine, the commitment that creates consequence. Sun Mars in Capricorn also clarifies leadership. Leadership as self command, leadership as responsibility, leadership as doing what you said you would do. This is where courage becomes practical, and where the plan gains propulsion because it is rooted in structure, timing, and devotion.Then the oppositions to Jupiter arrive, Venus opposite Jupiter, Sun opposite Jupiter, Mars opposite Jupiter. Jupiter expands the emotional field, and the oppositions ask for consequence. Capricorn holds the promise and Capricorn holds the time. The feeling carries the truth. The structure carries the future.Then the squares to Chiron arrive, Venus square Chiron, Sun square Chiron, Mars square Chiron, Mercury square Chiron, and this is where the month becomes intimate. Chiron is the vulnerability point, the place where pain taught you a language, the place where you learned to adapt, and the place where you carry a sensitivity that can either be protected through avoidance or matured through conscious action. The squares make pressure. They make friction. They make the question unavoidable. Venus square Chiron brings the issue of needs and value into direct contact with the wound, and the question becomes what you require in order to stop negotiating with what harms you, what you require to be resourced enough to stay coherent, and what you require to keep your value intact. Sun square Chiron brings will and identity into that contact, and it asks you to stop splitting yourself into the part that knows and the part that still freezes, because the square demands integration. Mars square Chiron brings initiation directly into the vulnerability, and it asks for courage that is not impulsive, courage that is precise, courage that knows the wound and still moves forward. Mercury square Chiron brings the mind and the voice into the tension, and it asks for clean language, honest naming, and a strategy that does not bypass what is tender. Chiron is the anchor of this tension, and this tension becomes an engine when you allow it to drive maturation instead of reactivity, because it insists on a plan that can endure.Mercury opposite Jupiter arrives as the mind meets the emotional field in full volume. Jupiter in Cancer expands meaning through feeling, and Mercury in Capricorn wants to think through consequence, and the opposition makes a bridge that can either exaggerate a story or clarify one. This is where you can feel how your mind has been captive to a narrative that no longer serves your life, because Jupiter amplifies it, and you can also feel the alternative as a living option, because Capricorn can choose what is real and build from there.Venus enters Aquarius and values begin moving into a wider field. The Capricorn work stays as the backbone, and the social dimension comes online, because Aquarius brings perspective, community, and the future, and Venus brings desire, attraction, and value into that collective space, so the question becomes how your values want to live in the world you are building.Mercury conjunct Mars in Capricorn sharpens the mind into action. Thought becomes decisive. Words become initiation. This is not about talking for its own sake; this is about language that moves life forward, because Mars brings the initiating force and Mercury brings the articulation, and Capricorn demands that the decision has consequence. Then the Moon joins, and the new moon in late Capricorn seals the Capricorn chapter with a reset, a private recommitment, and a clean beginning in the very place that asked for maturity.Then the Aquarius initiations arrive: Venus conjunct Pluto, Mercury conjunct Pluto, Sun conjunct Pluto, Mars conjunct Pluto. The personal becomes collective. Pluto in Aquarius brings long evolutionary pressure, and it is ruthless about motive. It concentrates what matters, it intensifies truth, it asks for honesty in the strategy itself, because Pluto strips what is false and exposes what is essential. These conjunctions do not feel like surface change; they feel like a shift in orientation, a deeper alignment with what you are actually here to build.Neptune enters Aries at zero degrees, and the signal is era level. Aries brings ignition, initiative, and the beginning point, and Neptune brings dissolution, imagination, longing, and spiritualization, so the collective atmosphere changes, and the question becomes what kind of courage humanity will embody when the dream and the impulse meet at the threshold. THE NEXT TIME NEPTUNE ENTERS ARIES WILL BE IN 165 YEARS FROM NOW.A little bit of myth and a companionThis month and this year begin as a one. January is a one month. 2026 adds to one. The Gregorian calendar marks it. Numerology mirrors it. The sky echoes it through conjunctions, new phase relationships, initiations. A strategy can be placed now that wants to be fulfilled long term, as individuals can and will have the courage to liberate themselves from the shackles of their mind that still make them feel they are prisoners of circumstances, because it is through the generosity of Jupiter, by getting in touch with the emotional body, and the courage of Chiron as the warrior along with Mars, that this long term plan becomes a real potential for the years to come.Take time to contemplate not only what I’m writing, but this symbology. Dive into this arc, because it is a (promissory) outcome if you take time for yourself, to weave your own destiny within the destiny of the collective. Be brave.Now let’s talk about Chiron’s symbology; Chiron is a son of Cronus, Saturn, and he carries a wound that does not resolve through knowledge alone. In the myth, Chiron is wounded by an arrow poisoned with Hydra blood, and the wound stays incurable even for the healer; he then offers his immortality in an exchange that allows Prometheus to be freed, and Zeus {Jupiter} accepts the exchange. So you see what is genius about this configuration? Chiron in Aries is learning to embody his wound as courage, and squaring Jupiter in Cancer the tension becomes a way of liberation; Jupiter accepts Chiron’s offering of immortality that will help Prometheus [who had been bound by Zeus for giving fire to humanity], thus the light within each one of us can serve as a source of valor, illumination, and evolution.In this mythic arc, Saturn sets the condition, Jupiter grants the passage, and Chiron becomes the bridge. The wound remains and is metabolized into agency and human action. What liberates is a conscious offering. Chiron cannot heal himself, as he is an immortal; the healing arrives through meaning, through exchange, through the decision to transform pain into a vehicle for collective illumination. Chiron transiting will soon conjunct its own planetary node at the end of Aries, a collective orb that will propel humans to face and reassess a different direction in relation to their own individual pain. The south planetary node of Chiron describes the inherited wound pattern carried forward as lived memory, it holds ancestral, collective, and archetypal memory, revealing how sensitivity became armor and how endurance became second nature; when this node is activated by transit, the past rises into awareness as completed training, asking for recognition rather than repetition thus the invitation is to carry the intelligence of the wound forward, allowing vulnerability to become agency and lived experience to become medicine that serves a new direction of consciousness and purpose.So when I look at January, the symbolic spine is Saturn, Jupiter, and Chiron, with the personal planets initiating inside Capricorn.Capricorn is ruled by Saturn as time, maturation, consequence. while the personal planets one by one ignite, they ask for values that can be kept; they ask for courage that can be repeated; they ask for a mind that can focus and follow through, while Jupiter protects what is worth protecting making the inner truth louder, and supporting the capacity to nourish the future from the inside out.Chiron in Aries stationing direct makes the courage actionable. This is where the warrior becomes an embodied choice, where the plan stops being aspirational and becomes a long term strategy. Prometheus belongs here by the Fire with the light which in turn brings awareness. The inner spark that refuses to comply, the clarity that makes you stop negotiating with fear and the liberation that comes through the willingness to hold your own life in your hands, with valor. This month’s tension is necessary to jumpstart your next life, the one initiating NOW.January asks us to find our own Apollo that enlightens our own Chiron, our most vulnerable point, and it asks for the courage to liberate ourselves from pain by turning instinct into skill and knowledge into medicine. In order to be free, one must embody one’s own light with courage.One more marker: six years have passed since January 12, 2020, when Saturn and Pluto conjoined in Capricorn. Half a Jupiter cycle has passed; this is a meaningful midpoint. The question that belongs here, the one that carries weight, is simple: how much have you evolved in consciousness and awareness since January 2020, and how grateful are you that you have been unwinding the knots that had you bound to a belief system that no longer works. You have until the summer, when Jupiter in Leo will oppose Pluto, calling for the midpoint of the cycle that began in the summer of 2020, when we were all forced to be locked in our homes because authorities were exceeding their power. Some of us did not comply and are now living fully with the consequences of following our truth. Jupiter is truth when it has agency; without agency, it becomes dogma.Take this month seriously. Print the table. Mark the days that matter. Locate Capricorn in your chart and treat that house as the arena of maturation. Choose one strategy you can hold for the long stretch, one value you refuse to betray, one action that proves courage. Let Jupiter in Cancer restore the emotional body. Let Mars move you. Let Saturn give you time and structure. Let Chiron stationing direct become the moment you stop circling the wound and start using it as a threshold. This is how the knots unwind: through consequence, through devotion, through a plan that keeps choosing you back, and through a fire that remains yours.One of my biggest prayers these days is that everybody closes their eyes at the same time. Everybody in this world, eight billion people, closing their eyes, and for one minute looking inside themselves to see the truth, and then awakening to consciousness. That is wishful thinking. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Stanza IEmbodying my nervous systemOh Lord, this one is curvy and bold, sincere and curious, courageous and soft, strong when needed. This is my song for 2025.Lord, I do thank you for remembrance. I do thank my soul for listening to my inner voice screaming silence and no more attention, where distracting factors kept me from being kind to my beautiful self.Embracing a softer edge has been the challenge, since I thrive in structure, order, and support. Yet trust needed wisdom that is lived, not read or transmitted even. It needed time to weave and unweave past and no longer vital chords.An air of sadness kept me attentive to observe the times we are leaving behind, with care, in forgiveness and at times forgetfulness that can stem from the yearning to evolve. Sweet soul, the seeking has long ceased, and the caring, weaving path of embodied attention began to show signs of emotional maturity. Oh, I am blessed indeed to have the power of words and the gift of colors, and most important, the union with love.I am blessed. Thank you, 2025, that started with a bang and kindly showed me to trust myself instead of others.“Each of us born as a citizen of two worlds, each a descendant of eternity, and each a child of time.”Michael MeadeStanza IIPerception and ValueNothing dies without having life resurface with a different shape.The current monetary system has shifted, and one cannot see it with the same lens.Bitcoiners become Austrian economists and, after that, start reading and understanding macro, for it is through the comparison of other goods and semi-scarce assets that one can understand what is happening and what each character in the story is playing.Treasury bonds.Stable coins.Old fiat, filthy currency.Precious and rare minerals.Bitcoin, options, derivatives, futures, you name it.And obviously s**t coins all play a part.Looking closely, in the micro, and also with distance and timeframes that vary, the macro starts shaping a story that most myopia is unable to track.It is about the real transformation of value, and how humanity has given all its value to institutions, even now, that maneuver in sophisticated ways to get more bucks for your time.What to do?In my case, I like to study behavior so my emotional body does not panic when a wavelength goes too high or too low. Instead, I take time to keep questions open, big and small inquiries, and I feel mostly very blessed.Stanza IIIThe word art comes from the Latin ars, meaning skill, craft, method, a knowledge embodied through practice. In Greek, the parallel term is technē (τέχνη), which means skill or the art of making, a form of knowing that lives in the body through doing. From this comes kallítechnēs (καλλιτέχνης), from kallós (καλός), meaning beautiful or noble, and technē, meaning skill. Kallítechnēs names the practice of skill carried with beauty, care, and discernment. Art, in this sense, is practiced intelligence shaped into form.I am blessed because one of the ways that I can create, among many things other than writing, is creating shapes, environments, playing with materiality, hiring fabricators, having the blessing of commissioners that trust my vision to the point that they give me opportunities to create work that is permanent and that can be seen in subway stations, universities, schools, hospitals, etc.I continue to do this work in a most devotional way because I understand the complexity and the beauty of this opportunity to be able to create something that listens to the needs of a community, in lieu of having adoration or a statue of reverence from the public, because most of the people that see my work have no idea who did it, and it does not matter, because the work is there to connect them to themselves, not to me. Yes, some people will know, but that is not the reason why I do it.This is a big difference from what happened after I left New York. I left that slavery of reputation and personas that needed to be played in order to fulfill the opportunity to contribute to society, so I am no longer a slave of that, and I am still blessed because even though I made that clear and separated myself from all the mechanics, I have been able to continue showing that what matters is what I do, not what I say.By presenting works that are well received and that enhance specific locations, this year I was able to install two different pieces in two different venues. One at the University of Washington in Seattle, Arcana. And in the last few weeks, the piece Vida was installed in San Antonio. I do not yet have the final images of that work; they will be produced sometime in January. I am very grateful that I can also serve as a being who is able to create shapes, colors, and meaning for communities.“The goal is to become more aware and less concerned.”Stanza IVCreativity. Poetry, music, as a way of representation and also creation. It is different from art. It is a choosing of light before dark, while knowing that awareness of the dark is the only way to find the light. Choosing light over dark, and looking for the dark to find your way through the light.Stanza VI cannot settle for one subject because my mind is very broad, and only in the last years did I realize how powerful it is to be able to synthesize, instead of focusing on only one subject, which is what I was supposed to do in school, and it drove me nuts and I drove everybody crazy.Now, as an adult, I really enjoy jumping from one subject to the next, enriching my knowledge through curiosity, widening my scope, and then coming back to share whatever I share with you. I think this is a beautiful thing I have become very aware of, and I have been unapologetic about sharing and linking one thing to another, because that is how my mind works.I receive a lot. I process a lot. Then I focus on something. I become really, really, really focused on one subject, and then I can share it. Overall, I am always speaking from my very wide antenna.Stanza VII orient through four ways of attunement.I take life best when things are quiet and not forced, rather cool. When schedules or pressure are rigid, I do not perform. I receive passively, visually, through inner images and subtle impressions. I know that what nourishes me arrives when there is space that is clear, and my body knows when to take in and how much.I need distance, elevation, and perspective, like living on a tower, or places that feel like mountains or high, with high vision, and also spaces that offer emotional resonance rather than control. My environment is shaped through alignment, and I can very seldom contribute when there is force. If the person, if the environment is aligned, then I breathe in openness. Here is where my focus sharpens. I see the world through people, networks, relationships, society. My mind tracks what works and succeeds, what moves cleanly through the social field. This is my one directed beam, precise and structured, observing how systems and humans move together. I understand their needs and act successfully.Hope and acceptance move me, carried by a very receptive mind. When I trust, clarity comes. When I accept, my mind rests. I lose my way when I try to repair, fix, or manage what has never been there for me to carry. There is a correct posture for me, and it is to allow, to surrender.I have a powerful polymath profile, creative, strategic, perceptive, and deeply designed for absorption and impact. I am built to see patterns, synthesize complex fields, and share what I see in ways that move others. I carry an unusually open and receptive system that makes me a natural creator, a facilitator, a visionary, and a bridge across disciplines.Three parts of me receive. One part of me focuses. It is like a wide antenna with a single lens, absorbing life, then seeing clearly.Variables orient humans once authority has been applied. In my case, as an emotional Manifestor, I wait for the wave to show me where I am. From that clarity, I orient my body, my mind, my environment, and my motivation.Stanza VIIThere used to be seven planets in the universe, that were visible to humans, until they discovered another one, and then another one, and then another one. And as our consciousness starts expanding, so does our ability to evolve.I am looking forward to humanity’s expansion in the next few years. I know that through 2028 there will be many shocks and awes, but also many beautiful flowers rising.The most important thing I am looking forward to is knowing that I am aware, in every moment of my life, of this amazing opportunity that it means to be a human, an amazing opportunity to be able to create on a daily basis. Whether I write and share, whether I create images and have them fabricated by others and then leave them in a public space, whether I connect one to one with other souls when they need support coming from the realm of the archetypes, and I serve as a servant to those, so I can mirror back what is needed.I can also be playful in inquiry and investigate new subjects that make me want to dive deeper and learn more things, so I can share more. The more I learn, the more I share, and this is how I contribute.You see, the word contribution means with a tribe. And it is interesting because even though I have been allergic to belonging to big groups, a tribe is different. A tribe is a clan. It is a smaller group of people that you can remember by name.The collective is a blob, and that is the kind of place where I feel uncomfortable, because I do have memories of having been leading big blobs of people into darkness. So in this life I said, no thank you, give me one single ticket. I can be responsible for my own life, and that is what I am doing. So I wish you all a beautiful, bright 2026 that allows you to have the wisdom and the beauty that you want in your life. Do not forget to value what is most important, which is your needs.happy new year, I will be back soon with some astrological insights as January and February offer full initiation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

The Beach; the Vortex; the FieldToday’s Monday, just came back from the beach. It was such a beautiful moment. It was very windy, and it was very sunny, and the air was crisp, and the water was salty, crisp as well. A little bit violent, but not too much for me not to venture in. At times I think about the vortex where I live, where these lines meet and create this energy field that makes me feel so home, connected, and where I can almost measure the qualitative energy that makes me connect to other dimensions. The sea, the water, the salt, the wind are all elements that I can feel with my senses, but there are other parts that are not to be sensed in a physical way, felt either emotionally or more through me, with a different authority that is the authority of the divine in me.The Chart; the Release; the CelebrationI just looked at my astrology chart, and I’m like, holy s**t, I just had the transiting South Node in Virgo conjunct my 8th house Pluto, over the weekend on Dec 20th, I was aware of it for months as I have intentionally worked with it, yet, I forgot about it during the New Moon + Mars on my south node, squaring transiting Saturn and Neptune, which have been squaring my nodes in Cap/Cancer & Ceres the last months, but then I realized, “Girl, you’ve done good, you’ve released a lot” and I’m not going to go through all the details of what happened to me last week, because I’ve been processing so much data, information, while I’ve been rewiring my nervous system in the last nine months, that is just a celebration for me right now, there was a breakthrough and it was YUGE! I am grateful for that.Capricorn Season; the Spine; Emotional WavelengthsNothing more Capricorn than the grind. I’ve been building, building, building. I’ve been slowly waiting. I’ve been ascending, descending. I’ve been waiting. I’ve been patient. I’ve been impatient. Oh, I love Capricorn season. Why? Because that’s where my South Node is. It’s not just familiar, but instead of pushing back familiarity, I embrace the beauty of it, how it builds slowly, slowly. And then with time you can see how things mature, how they are shaped, or where the direction is heading. What I learned through studying the spine, the 33 vertebrae (research for my book) is that it can be flexible; it can be breathable, it can be gentle, and protective. It can bring an embrace and embody wisdom with time, patience with care. The Moon is integrated as a polarity point of what real authenticity, authorship and authority mean, an awareness of emotions that need to be embodied, felt, more than understood. See, emotions are wavelengths; in order to embrace them, one has to let the wavelength be, with its difference in frequency; some peaks have different timeframes, and allowing them to be expressed, and to have their own timing too, that’s important. So it’s neither all loose or everything constrained. This is the Capricorn season. Yeehaw!The Twelfth House; Asking for Light; Glimpses of 2025When I know all these personal planets will line up in my Twelfth House, and that I cannot see them. I could only ask for the light to reveal them, and I’m re studying Biogeometry right now, so BG3 becomes one of the ways I name that harmonizing quality when the field feels coherent.The liminal space is a place where the twilight merges with its Higher Harmonic of Ultraviolet, described as an energy quality found at dawn, associated with a realm of spiritual manifestation and ritual, where angels dwell.They will be revealed during the Full Moon on January 3rd, but because I am building that timeframe, I started seeing the glimpses of joy, of when finally the shape of 2025 took form, as I was slowly allowing more space to be built. This last week has been amazing in that sense. I’m looking forward with patience. I’m not there. I’m here.No Synthesis Yet; The Build Up; Saturn’s Last TouchesNot having a synthesis all the time is a great thing in times of re-structuring. Humanity is in the middle of building something absolutely BRAND NEW, there’s no synthesis yet, there is an initial idea, and then there’s the grinding of the build up, and then with time we can look back and say Holly Molly! this painful and dark side was actually the edge and the beginning of the new. It’s interesting, I could do the synthesis of my 2025, and that’s closing with the South Node of the Moon that still has some reverberation as it is within a 2° orb, as it just happened. So in the next two months I’m going to get the synthesis of this immense year of inner value and outside quietude, giving meaning to the second part title of my book, The architecture of Value. While this happens, I’m already building the platform of the future, and it still cannot be concretized, but it has these strong foundations. I am in the exercise of strategizing how I would like my life to unfold. As Saturn will finally leave Pisces on February 13, 2026 at 7:11:39 pm ET, it will completely remind me that my second Saturn return that started in March 2023, almost three years, has been very fulfilling and supportive, as both my identity and the architecture of my value were being reshaped in a different view from the first Saturn return back in 1994, which is when I moved to New York, to the United States. And right now, [which I have considered in the last three years,] if I should stay here, should I move, and I have decided that this question is still a big question, but the more I look at my chart, & the chart of the United States, I know that there’s a reason why I’m living in this vortex that I live in as my chart and that of this country are fated…. I mentioned I’m taking time back to re-study Biogeometry, which I did with Dr. Ibrahim Karim at the end of 2023, the courses were intense, but the info needed to land properly and the structure needed to be shaped, and right now, while Saturn is doing the last touches in Pisces, it has given me the glimpse of its nature, and reminded me how during 1996 - 1997 Saturn in Aries supported me to become a real artist. Right now, I’m getting ready for Saturn getting into my third house, which is going to be amazing, because the structures that I’m building are more about how I’m going to be communicating from the place where I am right now after building the architecture of my Value.Evolutionary Timing; The Middle; The CorrectionThis article wants to remain in the build phase and refuses forced synthesis, because the evolutionary work is happening in the middle, inside the tension, inside the training. Yeah, there’s no resolution yet. It’s just knowing that we’re building towards there »»>.Venus in sagittarius now squares Saturn + Neptune, it means that there was a seeking for idealization; it’s a third quarter square, Venus is asking, what do I need essentially? how to return to my inner needs and values, and how to get leverage before I commit to another structure of another relationship or another way to embody this reality that is fading and being resurrected. Neptune is actually telling me at twenty nine degrees of Pisces, hey, it could all be an illusion, so make sure that you understand that there’s a veil, and there’s no boundary. That’s what Neptune is doing with Saturn as well. So the vow is about the correction, holding myself, understanding it.Mars in Capricorn, Mars is also a three quarter square with Saturn, Neptune, and Ceres. It is slowly going through my Twelfth House Capricorn, and is still revealing what needs to be seen before it crosses my Ascendant somewhere at the beginning of February. Last time venus and mars initiated a new cycle was on 02/22/2024, right on my ascendant, these last two years Oh la la! they have been quite formatting of my new individuality and liberation at the same degree, that day the Sun was on my Saturn, giving light to a structure that was starting to be reshaped before entering my second house of values. YOU CANNOT MAKE THINGS UP, astrology is MATH, is HARMONICS, is a guide of the journey has chosen as a PATH, let me decode my plan, hell yeah! and that is what I do for myself and for others who are ready for a reading with me; as I serve the alchemy of these sciences bringing light to each soul when we meet and when needed.Jupiter still squares Chiron, giving us some beautiful gifts. So the days before the Full Moon on Jan 3rd, the evolutionary instruction is simple, keep building, keep listening, keep, sheltering in a safe place. The Vow; The Gaze; ProjectionsMy current practice is a vow to my life. Dear reader, while I’m still building in my body, in attention, in time, is that I chose to stop tracking the gaze of others. In the past, in my nervous system, I remember having the image of connecting the dots (I wrote about it months ago.) The gaze of others, that’s what gave me some very important material that I work with in harmonics and points in my chart. When Uranus was in Gemini, connected to my Mom’s Chiron, landing in my fourth house, and I suddenly realize BOOM! that if I’m being judged by the world, by others, by friends, by enemies, it has nothing to do with me. It is a memory that I’ve been carrying way too long. So I released it. And once I released it, everything started unfolding to where it is right now. I cannot give a conclusion yet, because I’m still in this process. But hey, the view from here is stupendous. It’s delicious. It’s yum yum.I like that I chose to stop tracking the gaze of others, to measuring myself through, and stop living inside other people’s projections, and looking at my own projections. That’s when everything started to unfold, when I saw that I was projecting. I was that little girl that wanted to be seen and held, and I started holding me, and that’s when everything transformed.Fasting as Memory; Purging; A Previous Nodal ReturnI was thinking about the times in my previous nodal return when I did a lot of purging,(June 2006 - December 2007) but it became more physical. And that purging, I was invested in understanding my body from a different perspective. Uranus was in Pisces on my Chiron. So it was giving me shocks of how to embody and surrender to the direction of my life as the north node travelled through my second house of needs and values. While at the same time, Saturn was in my seventh house in Leo, a creative outlet of how to create a supportive relationship to people /situations and things. I remember I started making a lot of money with my artwork. I had a set of loyal art collectors, that gave me a boost, yet I had to still integrate that value and validation are not projected but internally felt. It was also the beginning of my Public art commission work. But I still needed, at the time, the infamous middlemen; I still did not understand fully what was the architecture of my value. I needed another round; and so I did. I took time to do it. The fasting period started then, because I was purging physical life. This time, the purge reads through GNM, German New Medicine, deep adaptations that resolve through the body when the conflict completes its arc, and the crisis marks the release. It’s a different way of seeing this. The History of Fasting; Sacred Practice; The JungleThe history of fasting. It is very interesting to see how certain ancient practices become part of the cultural trend. You know, yogis doing acrobatics, but not understanding that the yoga itself has eight limbs, and to be able to hold a posture or an asana is part of the breathing and meditation practice of such an ancient technique to quiet the mind, not just tone the body?Another one is fasting, fasting is a way to connect to the divine. Nowadays you hear people, “I’m going fast for three days so I lose some pounds.” Since when we became so disconnected? Since when we just take the top layer of the foam and we make of that something banal? Fasting, I used to fast a lot back in the mid of the 2000s. I started fasting as a meditation practice, as a way to empty my body of food and connect to the higher self, to the divine, through a process of quieting the mind, and also not having the body have too much energy spent, so I could truly get into myself; it was fantastic. I did water fast, I did juice fast, I did bone broth fasting. It was around the mid 2000s where I started practicing Daoist meditation, and that’s when the fasting became part of my routines; I did it on and off for two to three years until I realized that my yearning to go and live in a mountain as a monk was futile because the real yogi or the real monk lives within the jungle. Fasting lives inside the oldest spiritual technologies because it shifts perception through devotion, it clears the noise field, it refines attention, and it makes prayer practical. In India it appears as upavasa, staying close to the divine, in Jain practice as disciplined purification and vow, in Buddhist practice through Uposatha days of restraint and observance, in Daoist lineages through fasting and grain avoidance as a way to quiet desire and strengthen inner listening, in Judaism through fasts that mark atonement, mourning, and return, in Christianity through desert fasting and the forty day rhythm of Lent as an initiatory passage, in Islam through Ramadan as daily humility, remembrance, and reorientation, and across many indigenous traditions through vision fasts where the body becomes the altar and the world becomes a mirror. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

I feel that it is imperative to move towards a complete integration of what we call the divine to what people call the source, where some more religious call G*d, Christ, Jesus, the Buddha, Mohammed, Shiva, the light, the divine, WUJI anything you can call what is sacred.What we call the core of it all, All that Is, aka consciousness. Instead of staying in a place where we are completely divided inside and out of ourselves because of ideologies, rituals, perspectives, that they don’t seem to make any more sense. So there is an urgency of integration and of inner coherence, of returning to a lived relationship with the divine that does not depend on belief systems, gurus, or meditation retreats, teachings, banners, etc.I’m tracking a closing cycle, and I can feel that the collective tension is mirroring an internal tension that many people are carrying, where the mind tries to hold certainty, where the psyche tries to hold identity through belonging, and where the heart knows that the era of borrowed meaning is completely dissolving into dust. I would like to speak directly to that, because ideology has become the easiest way to outsource truth, and outsourcing truth creates inner division, that leads to relational division, and collective division, the cost is obvious now because it fractures people from their own intelligence and it fractures communities into endless argument without resolution, and it doesn’t allow people to connect to each other or to reconnect to their own authentic selves.I’m writing this from my heart because I can feel that the only stable meaning right now comes from trust in the divine as an internal reality. Trust is what is coming through Source. Trust is the totality of all things. It’s all that is. Trust is the intelligence of the Creator. Trust is what lives inside the body and inside the heart and inside our soul. I am interested in this moment when we stop looking outward for permission to know what we know and we stop treating the divine as an idea that must be defended and we start living as if our consciousness is already part of the Source because the remembering reorganizes action, value, and perception without force.A moment of full alignment.I can feel how silence becomes intelligent in a moment like this and how the nervous system registers truth before the mind can and will explain it, and how coherence becomes a form of law that reality responds to.Not long ago, I accepted that the first time I really felt true self love was when I witnessed my mother’s death. And throughout these last two years, I have been able to integrate and rewire my nervous system so I can totally open a space that is very flexible and caring and loving so I hold the divine in me.This is where I want to bring people into a place where the question becomes simple and severe. What happens when I return to inner truth and allow the truth to guide my choices, my timing, my relationships, my speech, my work, and my attention?I want the tone of this piece to hold a threshold because I am watching a collective cycle complete and I’m watching people reach for stories that keep them split. I’m also watching the possibility of a different response, which is trust as a lived orientation, trust as an inner authority, trust as the field that holds me steady when external sanity falls and breaks down.DreamI had a very vivid dream and it stayed in my body after I woke up, a brief scene in that liminal space between dreaming and being awake, a familiar presence, an embrace that carried weight, grief, and release, very little language, mostly feeling, mostly the kind of contact that registers in the nervous system as truth.The way I hold dreams now comes from the same place I’m writing from, trust in the divine as an internal reality, because when I am connected to that field, dreams and insights arrive with a certain clarity and a certain timing, and then life corroborates them in simple ways, through a conversation, a tone, a confession, a reality that echoes the dream without needing interpretation.It reminds me of how after my father died, I searched for him in books, philosophies, and journeys. In every relationship that I had, whether it’s a friendship or intimate, there was always a part of expectation, always trying to feel resonance with the other soul. This time the feeling is very gentle. It’s more complete. The dream doesn’t ask me to do anything. I don’t want to decipher it because I know it has something deeper, something continuous. It shows that something has already shifted inside of me, and it feels like it could be a closure of this 2025 without rupture, with care, without expectation.I’ve been working a lot on that longing that I’m integrating this year, and because we’re talking about the divine, I actually ended up integrating the divine and the God in me, and the dream is so vivid because it is embodied. That urge is already within me, and I thought it was beautiful to have a dream with a familiar presence, with a friendly, profound relationship, that made me really feel very connected to the divine. So thank you. G*D.Spiritual detanglementMars at 29 degrees of Sagittarius square Neptune at 29 degrees of Pisces emphasizes closure at the last degrees of Sagittarius and Pisces, and Neptune being newly direct intensifies the sense of completion. Then new moon squares Neptune, through the same dissolving field. After that, Venus squares Neptune. After that, Mercury enters the same space. This is the sequence I’m feeling as identity, value, and mind moving through one dissolving field, and it correlates with a month where the psyche cannot lean on external sanity in the same way.On December 19th, there is a New Moon in Sagittarius at 28 degrees, squaring Neptune and Saturn, in conjunction with the Galactic Center, also approaching my South Node, and it happens one day before the solstice.This is happening in my eleventh house, where Sagittarius has the last degrees and very close to my nodal axis. My nodal axis is 3 degrees of Capricorn, so my South Node is going to be activated first by the moon, Mars, then by the sun, then by Venus, and last by Mercury. Because Saturn and Neptune are now also squaring my Nodal axis, I think this is a moment of reckoning for me, where it actually makes sense I’m finishing my book.Jupiter still squares Chiron. Jupiter is in Cancer retrograde, and Chiron is on my Mars, and what I’m feeling is that whatever insecurity I’ve felt before about being courageous, I’m going back to a comfortable place, the last comfortable place one has been before being alive, the mother’s womb, the environment that is safe, where one feels protected. I am starting to feel that protection, and it’s within, it’s not an ideal, it’s not a ritual, it’s more trust, trusting in God, it’s more energy.For the next several weeks, the synthesis is here. Time to quiet out, remove myself from the main stage, keep observing past behavior and current behavior, and to synthesize from what comes within.Around January, we’re going to see all these personal planets meeting one another, closing and starting cycles, and the numerology coincides with these relational resets. At the end of January each personal archetype will meet with Pluto in Aquarius, a collective pressure to transform how authenticity could feel. The conjunction sequencing to Aquarius culminating with contact with Pluto intensifies the evolutionary demand for clean alignment because Pluto brings consequence, death, and irreversible transformation.The Saturn and Neptune conjunction on February 20th, right after that, frames the larger threshold as a collective restructuring of reality, meaning, and responsibility. Last time Neptune met Saturn at 10 degrees Capricorn was November 9, 1989, and that was the fall of the Berlin Wall and all the structures that represented ideologies that were born and enhanced during similar conjunctions in 1917 and 1953. History shows in cycles, humans tend to ignore the signs.There is going to be a lunar eclipse on February 17. So from this lunation in December until the eclipse, we’re going to have an array of dissolutions, closures, tension, and actually an incredible space to evolve at our own will, at our own awareness. The sequence is beautiful because first it is a personal realization, it is an intimate reconnection to ourselves with the divine, with the creator of life, the one that generates opportunities for evolution, and then as time progresses until the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune, then it becomes a social reset where we will be completely ready for all the courage and changes that we have been able to bring forth.CodaIf I could erase a decade, I would erase from 2009 until 2020. I’m laughing because sometimes in my iPhone some old pictures appear, and you know how they make these little movies with the pictures and they put this silly music and everything is very nostalgic, and I look at the pictures of my life with the people that were part of my life, and I go like, what the f**k was going on in my life. And I think everything started collapsing on, I will say exactly, February 2009. This is like the very beginning of a very big breakdown in my life, the nodes were on my ascendant, while bitcoin was being created, and it took so many years. It took until 2014 to actually walk out of that marriage, walk out of a situation that was unsustainable, and then from that walking out on December 19, 2014, until I moved to Miami Beach on the last day of July in 2020, it took so much courage, so much soul searching, so much of me in a good way, I’m not complaining, to just find the strength back in me and feel myself with authenticity, with generosity, with a lot of the things that I’m feeling right now. But then from 2020 until now, through the death of my mom and many other little deaths, because so many things have been dying, I made so much space for caring about myself, and most importantly, to really allow the divine to be inside of me 24/7.So let me reframe it. I’m not going to wipe out my past. The past is past, and the deeds were there, and they all happened for a reason. What I will do eventually is accept and integrate it in my current life. Because without that pain, without that growth, without that evolution, I wouldn’t be here. All I needed was movement, and I did move. And I thank God that I did. And even the pain right now shows me where I was giving myself an allegiance to, where I was really not covering my base, where I was really looking so much for acceptance and validation, but I was not taking care of my needs. The people I chose, when I look at them, it’s incredible right now. I can thread them all in one line, and they all have the same characteristics. With me, I was unable to see what I was attracting, because I was attracting what I needed to integrate in my life. Quite interesting. So acceptance, next step. Surrender, next step.Even though nobody, including myself, knows what’s coming, nobody knows, and there are so many charlatans out there saying this is going to happen, this is happening, and everything is still so much under the fog, so even though nobody knows what’s going to happen, there’s only one thing that is certain, and it is surrendering to one’s design. That’s it. As long as I surrender to my design and I allow the divine in me, I’m all good, and I’m very happy to say that that’s what I do now, and that’s what I didn’t do for a long time in my life.Last but not least, though, as all these squares pass by my South Node in Capricorn, 3 degrees, they will enter at 7 degrees into my twelfth house. So at the end of the month, the Sun enters the twelfth house and all these other planets come close as well. So this is another closure. This is until probably the first week of February, when the Sun is going to rise on my ascendant. It feels like it’s time to really take time to surrender and to have this synthesis, this closure. And I totally feel like that, like not being so much out there. This is the time for revision, and I’m going to use the time for writing or putting together the last chapters of my book. Also bringing forth the energy of the future that is already seeded and is already seeing some sprouting. It’s this liminal space that I feel so familiar with, as my whole chart is very balsamic. And even Human Design, many six lines. So it’s just this moment I’m so accustomed to, as the moment of synthesis.To yearn for the divine incarnated is the wish of my soul now and music is the best way I connect to the divine when I am not in a state of grace.happy new moon, restart, reset. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Here I am sitting in the middle of the night, probably 9 PM, and I changed all the bulbs in my house to red light, so it looks a little bit like the red district, but it has really helped me change my sleeping patterns, because as soon as I turn on the lights I feel like winding down. And I am also waking up really early, so I can see the sunrise, and it just changes everything.I’ve been wanting to stay quiet, but then there are other things that I need to process, so basically what I’m doing here is I’m going to process out loud. I’m going to process out loud and take time to process.Two thousand twenty five has been about rewiring my nervous system. I am watching how my body reacts to everything: to light, to silence, to money, to people, to messages that arrive and to messages that never arrive. I am listening to the speed of my thoughts, the way my heart races or slows down, the way I reach for my phone or for my own breath. It is as if my whole system is learning a new pace, a new baseline of safety that lives inside my cells and not in the reactions of others.What am I processing? I don’t know how to explain this year. It’s been the year. I’ve been saying it for a while that it’s the best year of my life. Second best is 2020 and 2021. Those years were amazing. I just empowered myself to be free, and I felt what freedom was like for real.This one is more about: I know I’m free right now, but with 2025, 2026, it’s about having the courage to go all the way. I’m all in. I’m all in, in life, in expansion, in feeling, in being quiet, in being there for me. It’s absolutely beautiful.On the other hand, some things, people, and situations have run their course, and I’ve done a little bit of mourning. I’ve been slow. Now that I discovered the beautiful GNM, I can understand that probably I have been mourning, my mom died in 2023, but I’ve been mourning other things too, I’m mourning my life in New York; 27 frigging years. I’m finally mourning myself within a twenty year-long marriage. I’m also mourning my father for the first time, Since I jumped into emotional detachment to protect my pain; I’m mourning a lifestyle.When I mourned my mom, I was holding her very tight, day and night, she was with me, then Mayra, my shaman, passed at the beginning of this year, unexpected to me, but she is also very present. I have this thing that I am present with dead people. I can go back and forth. I am present in constant time. yet I know when it is time to let go. dissolve, undo, give thanks, let go…Dissolving with soap Today, Wednesday the tenth at 7:30 a.m., Neptune went direct at 29 degrees of Pisces. I want to speak about this, because I think I have been aligning so much with my transits that I am capable of receiving messages beforehand that help me decipher what is unfolding. Neptune entered Aries briefly on April first, then went retrograde and re-entered Pisces 10/22/25, and in that return a lot of confusion surfaced. It felt like it messed the structure I had prepared for 2025, because deeper information needed to come through, now I feel I can restructure it with more clarity.Neptune in my second house has been dissolving old attachments to value and dissolving illusions about worth. Saturn has been traveling with Neptune, and both have been squaring my nodal axis in the fifth and eleventh houses. This has been asking me to see the patterns that shaped my creativity, my friendships, my communities, my pleasure, and my sense of contribution. It has been showing me where I needed to reclaim sovereignty over my resources and over the way I invest my energy; my old scaffolding of self worth has been dissolving so I can build something true.At the same time, Uranus has been moving through my fourth house, and this is the key that opened the door: when Uranus entered Gemini, I felt a disruption in the foundation of my being. It felt like instability at first, but now I understand it as the revelation that my nervous system was shaped long before I had language. My system adapted to my mother’s needs, to her anxiety, to her responsibilities after my father died. I became the one who sensed the emotional climate before it shifted. I was not the oldest child, but the one chosen to support her, and the structure of my nervous system was built around managing everyone else. My mom’s gaze had been very critical, very funny at times, and when she could not get her way, it was expressed in restrained anger. I learned to adapt on a day to day basis, my scope was to measure her mood; Is she funny, or frustrated? and I would adapt, little did I know this adaptation that made me survive both as an over caring person and as a clown, would shape my nervous system, until this year when I noticed it was an adaptation, not the truth…Uranus retrograde made the message even clearer, what I thought were emotional habits were physiological imprints, what I thought were psychological tendencies were survival strategies woven into my body. Now I feel the release of these old codes. My fourth house is being rewired from the root. My inner world is reorganizing so my body belongs to me again.This aligns perfectly with GNM. Territory, safety, belonging, the sense of who surrounds us and what we must defend or maintain. My conflicts have always been territorial at the root. Where do I feel safe. Where do I feel invaded. Where do I place my body. What do I allow into my field. The nervous system is the first territory we inherit. It tells us what home feels like. And for me, home was vigilance. They align with my Saturn in pisces first house, Neptune in 10th house scorpio with a balsamic moon in the MC 9th house, Uranus balsamic to Pluto 7th/8th and last but not least Jupiter balsamic with the sun 3rd house taurus, everything is an ending and glimpse of a new world, even my ten 6 lines in my human design chart including my 6/2 emotional manifestor profile, I chose to intervene when needed, when not, I am waiting for the next cycle to arise. Now the map is changing. Neptune dissolves false value as Saturn gives form to what is real, the nodes of the moon show the karmic threads in my fifth and eleventh houses, while Uranus breaks open the foundation so I can build a nervous system for the woman I am now, not the child I once was.Numbers speakWhen I bring numerology into this moment, everything becomes even clearer. The year 2025 adds to nine » Nine is closure; Nine is completion, Nine is the last exhale before the new cycle. I am a sixth. Born April twenty seven, nineteen sixty four, I am in a four year: foundation, structure, base, anchoring. As of my next birthday, I enter a five year: expansion, movement, curiosity, freedom, the work of this year has prepared the ground for the next.A simple note on GNM. It is German New Medicine, a biological approach that studies how the body responds to shocks, how symptoms follow precise logic, how healing is not random but patterned. It observes brain, organs, psyche as one field. My mind works through observation and correlation. Patterns. Cycles. Signals. And this is where everything begins to make sense. Reading charts regulates my nervous system. Yes, you read right. Watching waves go up and down teaches me that volatility is part of life.Realignment vs DisciplineThis is why I called the part of the blog equilibrium is a process where I read financial charts, as they, believe or not, help me regulate my nervous system, It is the capacity to adapt to internal weather systems, emotional variations, expansions, contractions, shocks, silences. It is knowing how to respond; it is knowing how to return to myself.It is about realignment and far away from being disciplined. This is what my nervous system is teaching me » with every breath I realign; every habit that became a discipline was limiting me from responding in real time. I started with a question: why should I, why should I? Because I want to. Because I feel like it. The ought to’s no longer belong in my life.Rewiring my nervous system is still in process, but it is teaching me how to live differently, how NOT to respond immediately, how to read the field, how to feel the moment: Things, situations, people that used to trigger me no longer do. Somatic work started this process, but the nervous system rewiring is even subtler. Fascia. Hypopressives. Spine. Breath. And it is no coincidence that the book I am writing is about the flexibility of those thirty three vertebrae.Another frequency entirely: An IMPULSE TO BEThere is something important about release, because every crisis carries momentum, Neptune is in gate twenty five, Saturn is in gate thirty six, It just moved from the third line and still has to move through the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth before entering gate twenty five, where it meets Neptune (25.3 > Sensibility: The power to withstand failure and shock. The spiritual attitude which understands that innocent action is no guarantee for success yet, as well as the spiritual power to withstand shock and failure. In Shadow »The loss of innocence and the spiritual attitude through shock or misfortune, which can even lead to crime or suicide.) Gate thirty six lives in the solar plexus. It is emotional turbulence. It is crisis. It is instability as a doorway. in the Sabian symbol, A WOMAN JUST RISEN FROM THE SEA. A SEAL IS EMBRACING HER. Emergence of new forms and of the potentiality of consciousness.Gate thirty six connects to gate thirty five: the full channel of experience, It learns through motion, it is the jack of all trades, it wants to try something new. When this channel is hanging, the system cannot find release, the emotional energy loops, the crisis loops, there is no resolution; this is where the world is right now. Trying to resolve emotional currents so they can turn into wisdom.The thirty six - thirty five channel matures experience. It transforms chaos into meaning. It turns crises into expansion. It loops in shadow. It evolves in clarity.This is why I do not think that on February twentieth everything will suddenly be stable. Cycles do not work that way. We are entering a phase, a long phase, reshaping and realigning us with what the universe is asking of us; this is tuning, this is remembering; this is deeper perception; another layer of awareness, another frequency entirely.The truth is, the only way forward is alignmentOn the eleventh Venus squares the nodal axis from Sagittarius. I keep thinking back to when Venus conjuncted the South Node around October third. The market moved sharply that day. Something was revealed.Now the Moon sits on the South Node in Virgo. Identification with old forms of service, Venus in Sagittarius seeks value in truth, it wants meaning, it squares the nodes asking what needs refinement and what needs to be surrendered.There is also the square between Mars, Juno, the Sun in Sagittarius and Saturn, Neptune, Ceres in Pisces. Action and dissolution. Fire and water. The body and the dream.As Mars moves into Sagittarius and squares Saturn in Pisces, the fire pushes; Pisces softens, Mars wants to act, Saturn dissolves agendas, the truth is, the only way forward is alignment..When Mars squares Neptune this week, Neptune is stationary direct at twenty nine degrees of Pisces. The last degree. The last moment in its own sign for one hundred sixty five years. The cycle completes. The veil thins. The illusion is rinsed. Desire is purified. Direction becomes clearer.There is also the square between Chiron and retrograde Jupiter. I feel this as it sits on my natal Mars; it is the courage to go into the emotional body and upgrade the wound, when Jupiter goes direct and confronts Pluto in Aquarius by summer, the expansion meets the transformer, this point has been activated the whole 2025, with Mars, Mercury, Venus and a New Moon.Mars in Sagittarius squaring Saturn and Neptune in Pisces belongs to a cycle that began when Mars met Saturn in Pisces in April of two thousand twenty four. Third quarter squares review, refine, distill. They remove effort that comes from fear. They reveal action that comes from confusion. They prepare the ground for the next conjunction on April ten to twelve of two thousand twenty six at zero degrees Aries. A new cycle. A clean impulse. Direction without distortion.The nodal axis sits at sixty three line three and sixty four line three. 63» Mental pressure» Doubt » Inquiry » Truth. 64» Confusion» »Imagination » Illumination. Enlightening individual truths, how profound!A grounding field…Since I joined the Friends of the Truth online community, it has been amazing to witness how all this work on value and on rewiring my nervous system shows up in real time. I have noticed firsthand that my approach in the group has shifted from being automatically the caretaker to being mindful when I interact, when I share, and when I respond. I see myself more aware of not falling into automatic behavior that comes from many lifetimes and then becomes resentful. I do not want to fall into those roles. I want to keep boundaries and at the same time be joyful, share creativity, and stand in my own authenticity at all costs.It was not a coincidence that I prepared myself in the last years to join a community full of grounded individuals, where I can fully integrate myself as I reshape the architecture of my value. I feel this working beautifully.I am realizing how much of my survival needs were sequestering my nervous system, and now that I have shifted, it is incredible, because I no longer feel that I am surviving against somebody trying to take over my territory or that I have to over-give to someone who needs something from me. I have rebuilt my nervous system to know that I am in a safe place, that every decision I make toward my own security and my own self-care is a space of abundance, of joy, and of integrity.My nodal axis in Cancer is showing me that the more I care for myself, the more creative I become, and the more abundant my life is. Abundance is not only monetary; it is joy, creativity, generosity; generosity only works when it includes me. If I fail myself, everything else plummets. This is important. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Is your value pegged to your priced possessions, your cherished relationships, your status, or simply to your truth? How can you trust yourself to make the right decisions about your time on earth?Current Experiment: echoing July 1944, when forty four allied nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design a new monetary order that pegged their currencies to the dollar and the dollar to gold.In my current limited and still studying understanding I am watching two structures being built at the same time and together they change what the dollar feels like in daily life.What is at stake here is reality. What we think is real is what we believe, so our reality is shaped by our belief system. If our beliefs about money, safety and value are based on mirages, then the choices we make with our savings and our time can take us very far from what we actually need.let’s dive in, shall we?On one side stands Tether, it calls itself a stablecoin issuer, yet in practice it behaves like a private central bank for people who cannot touch the United States banking system. It holds a gigantic portfolio of United States Treasury bills, plus physical gold and a large stash of Bitcoin. Its token, USDT, is the way hundreds of millions of people in emerging countries hold and move what they experience as dollars. These are not deposits at a regulated bank inside the United States, they are claims on a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands that now has deep ties with El Salvador. “Tether is not a cryptocurrency company. It is a private central bank that has dollarized the developing world without permission.”Shanaka Anselm PereraThe GENIUS Act has drawn a hard line. One dollar system sits inside the United States where stablecoins must be fully backed by cash and Treasuries and supervised by Washington. An offshore dollar system keeps growing where Tether issues its own version of dollars backed by Treasuries, gold and Bitcoin, supervised by no one in particular. For a huge part of the developing world, the issuer of the everyday dollar is no longer the Federal Reserve, it is another private bank.For me the mirage is simple; on the screen everything still looks like neutral, safe dollars, underneath those balances are completely different IOUs tied to different balance sheets, different political risks and very different levels of control.The mirage is the shared belief that all of this belongs to one dollar world. In practice it is a layered structure that uses Bitcoin as collateral, Tether as a private dollar engine and GENIUS compliant stablecoins as a public dollar engine, all plugged into the same mountain of government debt.Mirage: there is nothing stable in stablecoinsOn the other side, the Federal Reserve itself is changing its relationship to the Treasury market in a way that I am still learning to grasp. The headlines say that Quantitative Tightening ended on the first of December and that the balance sheet froze around six point five seven trillion after draining more than two trillion from the financial system.Under that surface sits the plumbing: A Repo is a secured overnight loan> One party hands over Treasuries and receives cash, then reverses the trade the next day; a reverse repo is the same trade seen from the other side. The cash lender parks its money and holds Treasuries as collateral, repurchase agreements have been part of the Federal Reserve toolkit for more than one century. In the United States they show up around nineteen seventeen as a way for the Fed to lend to banks and they grew into a core Wall Street funding tool in the second half of the twentieth century, which is how they ended up at the heart of today’s money market plumbing scam .The Overnight Reverse Repo Facility was the place where money market funds and other large players could lend their spare cash to the Fed for one night and receive Treasuries. At the peak more than two and a half trillion rested there. That was the cushion, a parking lot of unused liquidity. Now that facility is almost empty; the spare cash has been pulled back into the system and bank reserves sit near the level where small shocks can create big stress.At the same time the Standing Repo Facility has become the daily escape hatch in the opposite direction. Dealers arrive with Treasuries and instantly turn them into reserves whenever they need dollars. When the Secured Overnight Financing Rate spiked in October this window had to lend eighteen and a half billion in a single day. The backstop that was created for emergencies now looks like a permanent feature of the market.When I place these two pictures on top of each other the mirage becomes clearer. The Fed has built an architecture where Treasury collateral can always be turned into central bank money on demand through the Standing Repo Facility, while the old buffer of excess cash in the reverse repo facility has almost vanished. Tether has built a parallel architecture where that same Treasury collateral is transformed into offshore dollar tokens and shipped into the Global South, backed also by gold and Bitcoin, without democratic oversight. One structure is public, one is private, both rest on the same foundation of United States government debt. If Tether fails, hundreds of billions in private dollar claims disappear for people far from Washington. If it thrives, it proves that the power to issue dollars and shape monetary reality can migrate into private hands. At the same time the Fed has shifted into a role of lender of continuous resort in the Treasury market. The monetary system still presents itself as a neutral landscape of interest rates and safe sovereign debt. Underneath, the trick is already in motion and we stand inside the experiment.There is another layer that sharpens this picture. By forcing stablecoin issuers to hold only Treasury bills, the GENIUS Act wires part of the demand for United States debt directly into stablecoin issuance. The BIS, the Bank for International Settlements, has already pointed to this link. The BIS is literally the bank for central banks. It sits in Basel as the group chat and back office where more than sixty central banks keep reserves, compare notes and quietly agree on how the game should be played. Its research shows that when dollar stablecoins grow, yields on Treasuries fall a little, and when they shrink, yields jump much more. Every expansion of Tether and its peers quietly suppresses borrowing costs, and every contraction hits harder on the way out.The GENIUS Act, Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins, hard wires this design into law. It tells every regulated payment stablecoin that its core job is to hold short term Treasuries and sit right next to the Fed and the Treasury market. In practice it turns stablecoin issuers into narrow banks that live off sovereign debt. The same design that uses Tether as a silent buyer in good times turns into a source of instability when Bitcoin risk unwinds, because every contraction in these balances pulls on the same collateral that holds the system together. If you want a simple translation of the acronym in my own language, GENIUS reads as “oh, we have been fooled again.”Let us remember twenty twenty two and TerraUSD. TerraUSD tried to hold one dollar through mint and burn mechanics and collapsed to almost zero together with its sister token Luna once the peg broke. Earlier experiments like Basis Cash and Iron Finance also died in self reinforcing spirals once confidence broke and redemptions accelerated. Most of the spectacular failures so far have been algorithmic designs that tried to defend the peg with code and incentives instead of with boring reserves. Tether’s USDT and the GENIUS style payment stablecoins are reserve backed. Their risk looks different. It is less about an instant depeg caused by broken code and more about the quality and transparency of the assets on the balance sheet and the political and legal structure wrapped around them.I am not a macro analyst; I am an artist and student of value pulling threads from people who have been immersed in this plumbing for years and stitching them into my own language so I can understand where I am standing.Lyn Alden takes aim at the phrase “we owe the debt to ourselves” in one of her newsletters. She points out that the federal government owes money to very specific holders of Treasuries with very different levels of power, not to a neutral collective self. Some are foreign governments, some are private institutions, some are individuals. The numbers and proportions matter. Defaults and devaluations land on real balance sheets, not on a mythical “ourselves”. Put another way, if you have $1 million worth of treasuries in your retirement account, and I have $100,000 worth of treasuries in my retirement account, yet both of us are taxpayers, then while in some sense “we owe it to ourselves”, it’s certainly not in equal measure.- Lyn Alden All of this lands for me as a very simple question. When you open an app and see a dollar balance, what claim are you really holding, on which balance sheet, and under whose law.Bitcoin: structural value always trying too hard to be freeI wrote earlier this year that Bitcoin will always be tied to government, because in its genesis chart Saturn lies in the second house in Virgo, where the structure of value is organized, and it opposes Uranus in the eighth house in Pisces, where the illusion of free shared values remains at risk. From an evolutionary astrology perspective this picture makes sense to me. Saturn in the second in Virgo keeps Bitcoin’s story tied to systems, accounting and rules. Uranus in the eighth in Pisces keeps shaking the shared pool of value and the dream of frictionless collective liquidity.With the progressed Sun now in Aquarius in the sixth house I see Bitcoin serving more as infrastructure and service than as clean escape. It is a bridge that carries value through the existing rails while those rails mutate. The ETFs, the way Tether holds Bitcoin in its reserves, all these arrangements show Bitcoin doing a job inside fiat’s nervous system rather than standing fully outside it. Pluto meeting that progressed Sun in Aquarius exposes the shadow of this arrangement and asks a simple question that I also ask myself. How much of what we call monetary freedom still depends on the very fiat flows and institutions we claim to transcend.Many Bitcoiners still lean on the fiat lifestyle. In other words they think and breathe dollars and high time preference and make economic decisions based on the moment, not realizing that saving in a hard asset can take many worries about the future away.Coming back from El Salvador this split has become vivid in my own field, I see two clear camps forming around Bitcoin; one camp is the grassroots builders in places like El Salvador who are creating circular economies, teaching people, running small businesses and using Bitcoin both as a store of value and as a medium of exchange that changes how they relate to time, work and community. The other camp is the institutional world that treats Bitcoin as a hedge inside portfolios and as a piece of collateral in the same old games. Both camps use the same protocol. The intention and the lived reality are completely different.Let us take the crystal ball out for a momentHaving felt a profound inner shift over the last weekend and stepping into December first, I feel as if I have already entered twenty twenty six. Saturn and Mercury turning direct give a clear kick forward while Neptune prepares to station direct next week. With that tone in my body I decided to look ahead into twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven, to see how the next movements in the sky lean on Bitcoin’s own chart. So much is shifting over the next year that I wanted a first pass, a way to sense what might be in store rather than arrive at those dates empty handed. I treat this as pattern work, not as a fixed script. The chart gives me questions, images and tensions to track as the macro plumbing keeps changing under our feet.On the 20th of February 2026, Saturn and Neptune meet, and in Bitcoin’s natal chart that conjunction happens very close to its Moon in the ninth house. For me this looks like a turning point in the way collective belief and collective fear project onto Bitcoin. There is a closing of one way of thinking and a slow birth of another. The nodes and Pluto move through Aquarius in the sixth house and ask a simple thing. Is Bitcoin only a story about escape, or is it already embedded as daily infrastructure and service. Around that same period the north node joins Venus and the Sun in the eighth house, and I see a deepening question around shared value, collateral and who actually benefits from this protocol while institutions keep wrapping it inside their own games. Mars, Vesta and Neptune gather in the seventh house and heat up the field of counterparties and alliances. That mix can look like devotion to a cause or like spiritual language covering legal traps, and again the chart refuses to decide for us. It simply holds up the mirror.When I extend the chart further to October 2027 the picture becomes even more suggestive. The progressed Moon in Sagittarius enters a balsamic phase with Black Moon Lilith in the fifth house, which to me reads like the end of a childish speculative cycle and the preparation for a more conscious creative phase. The progressed north node in Aquarius in the sixth house, together with Pluto’s transit there, keeps pushing Bitcoin into a role of service and work, less glamour and more quiet responsibility. Neptune sits exactly on Bitcoin’s natal Moon and Chiron moves into Taurus in the ninth house next to Vesta, so the philosophy around value carries both more devotion and more pain. Some people will use this rail to rebuild parts of civilisation. Others will keep treating it as one more hedge inside a fiat portfolio. The sky simply mirrors the split and invites each of us to decide where our trust in value actually lives.Full Moon in Gemini and the skipped stepThis week we also stand under a Full Moon in Gemini on four December. The Sun is in Sagittarius, Venus walks just behind it in a balsamic relationship, and Black Moon Lilith travels through Sagittarius close to Venus. Mars at twenty two degrees of Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces. The Full Moon itself squares the nodal axis at twelve degrees. In evolutionary astrology that kind of square is called a skipped step. Something in our habitual way of moving between past and future needs to be faced and integrated, not avoided.Back in June this year the Full Moon in Sagittarius also squared the nodes. Mars was in Leo squaring Uranus. Jupiter had just entered Cancer and was conjunct Mercury. Pluto retrograde squared Venus in Taurus and Vesta in Scorpio. I wrote then about the way the body remembers for us, about kidney stones and the way meaning lands when the body refuses to keep carrying misalignment. The piece was titled “What is misaligned has no anchor. Jupiter enters Cancer, can you feel the meaning yet.” I will link it here for anyone who wants to revisit that moment. The themes are the same. What lands in the body becomes real. Victimhood is a decision to live without courage.This December Full Moon in Gemini brings those threads back. The mind can spin in stories and volatility. Gemini loves options and jokes. The square to the nodes and to the Sagittarius Sun asks for grounding between discernment and surrender. Black Moon Lilith with Venus in Sagittarius wants to stop lying to herself. Mars with Juno in Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces. The compromise with truth matters. Ideals and spiritual language need to become applicable. No more philosophy that never touches daily life.For me the question is practical. Before February twenty twenty six, what scripts about money, health, work and love am I still carrying from the old world. Which of those scripts am I willing to release so that my body, my schedule and my savings actually reflect what I value.Reality, belief and the matrix feelingAll year I have been saying that the last degrees of Saturn and Neptune in Pisces before their conjunction on Febrary are pivotal to understand where you are standing and what your reality is. Reality in this sense is the relationship between your beliefs and your actions, what you think is real is what you allow yourself to act on.Since 2020 we have lived through scenes that many of us never thought possible: lockdowns against our own property rights (our bodies); the ongoing retarded pressure to inject substances into our bodies in order to participate in basic life. Narratives about health and safety that did not match what many of us observed around us; for me those years ripped the roof off the house» Everything that came after made more sense once I accepted that the reality!I have no interest in fear. What I care about is responsibility. Over these last months I keep asking very simple questions. How do I relate to my body? who do I believe is in charge of my body? Is it the government and the pharmaceutical industry? Is it some expert? OF COURSE NOT, IT IS me. How do YOU care for YOUR needs. How much blame do YOU still project onto institutions for choices that in the end belong to YOU.Recently I tried to have a dialogue with a young artist in England on Instagram. He spoke about the tragedy of being an artist now, how artists are born limited, victimised and oppressed, how the system makes it impossible to be free. The tone was familiar. It echoed Marxism and all the ideological scripts that train people to feel defeated before they begin. I told him despite being so young he was already preaching that the only answer is to be a victim. I said study money, he said no human should study money, he is angry against capitalists, but ignores that the socialism agenda needs money…He made fun of me, which is fine. At one point he said that my line about once living inside the rat race and escaping proved that I am also a victim. I answered that seeing the matrix is precisely what ended the victim story for me, awareness brings choice.We live in a huge matrix, I do not trust FIAT money, governments, food systems, or narratives by default, every day I make sure that I align with the light that is within. My mother once came in a dream after she passed and said to me: if you want to be close to me, be the light, emanate the power and wisdom of G*D, we all carry that creative power.Over the next weeks I expect more revelations/ surprises and alignments. It is up to each of us to decide what to do with that information, you can join the FUD and align with fear, You can keep scrolling and hope for the best. Or you can put your feet on the ground, touch grass, feel your own body and start making plans from the inside out. I am already envisioning in that state of mind. Everything you see, everything you feel, everything you think and everything you are, rests on how you relate to it.REASONINGAt a personal level I have given my body and my life time to discern this year so I can surrender to my truth. I can now say that I trust my sense of value, my sense of price and any material definition that flows from that. The practiced virtue of twenty twenty five has been discernment, and I have lived it through with joy. The virtue of the coming year will be courage, and we will need it.So I close with this question for you. When you look at your own balances and habits, where does your money actually sit, which architecture are you strengthening with every so called dollar you hold, and which beliefs about reality are you ready to retire before Saturn and Neptune write the next chapter.Attribution and sourcesMost of the hard plumbing in this note comes from Shanaka Anselm Perera’s work on Tether, the GENIUS Act and what he calls the Standing Repo Era, from Preston Pysh and Matt Pines on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and the way the Standing Repo Facility changes the Treasury market, and from Lyn Alden’s research on the overnight reverse repo facility, debt holders and selective default. In their conversation on the GENIUS Act and the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, Matt Pines describes “a strong strategic synergy between stablecoins and the United States, but also between Bitcoin and stablecoins and the United States’ interests.” * Shanaka Anselm Perera, Substack* Preston Pysh & Matt Pines* Lyn Alden, article on public debt and selective default* “Bretton Woods 2.0: Building the Bitcoin Monetary Order” panel with Efrat Fenigson, Ben Samocha, Roger Huang and Cedric Youngelman5.“What is misaligned has no anchor. Jupiter enters Cancer, can you feel the meaning yet” by Monika Bravo This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

BehaviorWhat does that even mean, to behave?We can start with the premise of what behavior means etymologically. In English, to behave comes from Old English “behaven”: be and have together, to hold, to surround, to contain, to have oneself in a certain way, the way we carry and conduct ourselves in front of others and in front of life. In French we would say comporter, which is to bring together, to gather who we are and how we act into one gesture. So behavior is how we hold ourselves and how we carry ourselves, the way we bring our parts together in one line of action, the way we draw a definition and move in a direction.I have been really integrating the idea of what behavior is because I speak about Aristotle showing us the telos of humanity as a pursuit of happiness, and that is already going to decipher and describe the behavior of a collective. When you go to Von Mises in Human Action, he says that this is purposeful behavior. If you go to Carl Jung, we are going to see that behavior is about integrating our unconscious with our conscious.So where do I stand now?Studying markets, I always read the behavior of demand and supply; when I look and observe other people’s reactions or responses, including my own, I am looking at behavior and integrity, principles: these are words that have a lot of weight.If we go to principle, it means beginning: Principium in Latin, the foundation. Integrity means that synthesis is allowed to include other parts. I always say that principles, for me, are a horizontal line where we stand, and integrity as individuals is a vertical line that does have a price, where the individual will arrive to a place and say: I will not bend beyond this height. Integrity is very subjective; we can judge other people for their own lack of integrity, and we can see ourselves where we bend.Now, I am speaking about all this because Saturn is finally going direct on the 27th of November. That is Thanksgiving here in the United States. After a few months, since July 13, it went retrograde from Aries back to Pisces on September 1st, and now it is going to go direct at 25 degrees of Pisces. It will reach Aries again in February to then approach the final great conjunction with the planet Neptune, who is the ruler of Pisces. Saturn has been in Pisces for the last three years. Try to remember everything that has been going on in your life since March 2023.For me, it was my second Saturn return. They say that when you have done the work, your second Saturn return gives you a lot of goodies. I think I have had a lot of goodies in the last few years: realizations, motivations, achievements, if you want to call it that.By the way, Mark asked me yesterday in our monthly session what I would say now about the second Saturn return, having effectively been through it, and I told him this: by the time Saturn came back in 2023, I already knew that my most painful turning had been my Chiron return at fifty, when I shattered into a million pieces because I had lived without boundaries and felt completely empty. So I prepared; years before Saturn entered Pisces I chose therapy, I chose to work on boundaries, I chose to start writing my first book as a reflection of that coming of age, and now the second book as a spine of thirty three vertebrae is holding the structure quite gently, because with Saturn in the first house in Pisces I can be any f*****g form, and the only way to give it form is to know myself and take care of myself first. This cycle has been about standing my ground, doing the homework instead of escaping, reparenting myself, feeling both parents at my back while I rebuild my nervous system from the core and stop shrinking to make space for others. My mom died as I was coming out of this second Saturn return, and somehow that sealed the work; I am standing in my own personality now, breathing fully, supporting my own needs without guilt. Second Saturn return was a banger.Saturn is always slow and it needs direction. It wants to achieve something. It is very concrete. It is very driven. It is driven towards a direction of success. But Saturn is also the father figure, Saturn is the authority that can show us that there is a clean way to go somewhere.The problems of Saturn or Capricorn are that they can be very constraining, limiting, austere, bland, stingy. It can be a pain in the neck. But I love Saturn because it is the ruler of my South Node, and I have learned to really understand its generosity. Believe it or not, it is very generous because it gives you time, chronos, to basically figure it out.There are two versions of time. There is chronos, which is like one, two, three, four, five, around the clock. And there is kairos, which is a different kind of time: the right timing, when you align with your frequency and things happen in a more magical way: the opportune and decisive moment.We are talking about linear time: yesterday, today, tomorrow. That is the kind of time that chronos or Saturn is giving us the power of. When you have achieved your goals and you are a good boy or a good girl, you get a medal, right? Like a dog, you get a little biscuit.This is ridiculous, because this is how society has been encoded to tell us that we have to behave, therefore we are going to get a prize. A lot of people do it for the prize. They do not do it for the doing itself. Sometimes Saturn or Capricorn lacks a little bit of passion because it is very rigid in the form, concentrated on the little cookie at the end of the rainbow.I am not. As I wrote a week ago, I am not at all. F**k that s**t. I already sent New York to hell, and my life right now has nothing to do with that kind of rigidity.Actually, it allowed me to integrate Saturn into the Moon, which is the pairing planet. Saturn is the father. The Moon is the mother. Saturn and Capricorn oppose Cancer, the Moon, our ancestors in a feminine way. I have integrated my feminine side. I do not have to prove anything to anyone. I know I can do it. F**k yeah, I can do it. If there is anybody who can do it, it is me, because I am driven.The question is always: at what price?I am not willing to give anything that does not belong to my frequency just because I want to achieve it. Saturn has taught me that even when you do the list and you check all the boxes, you do not necessarily get where you belong.Belonging comes from the heart. Belonging is embracing an environment that is thriving in opportunities to reconnect to what our emotions are. Otherwise, you stay in Saturn, you become reactive. Sometimes you do not know where these reactions are coming from, and you cannot grow.To look at Saturn, we have to look not only to the Moon, but also to Mars in Aries and Venus in Libra. They are the squaring quadrants, the cardinals. And guess who is going to go to zero degrees of Aries? Saturn and Neptune in February.This axis is the beginning of spring and the beginning of fall. This is a beautiful way to talk about this cardinal square where everything initiates. In weather-like conversations, we say that spring begins at zero degrees of Aries, fall begins at zero degrees of Libra, summer begins at zero degrees of Cancer, and winter in the northern hemisphere begins at zero degrees of Capricorn.So what is it in our lives that we initiate every quarter? Which aspect? When it is in Aries/mars, it is about individuality. That is where Saturn is entering February onwards> the great reset. We saw a bit of this in the summer before it went back retrograde. I saw where my needs are. I know what my value is right now after this long Saturn retrograde.I will not speak too much about it, because one of the things that I learned is to only share what is needed. Oversharing is devaluing myself. If you really want to get more of what I do, then you have to commit yourself to my offerings. That is all I have to say. You will not get me for too many freebies. That is what I learned during this Saturn retrograde. More compact, less expressive, more abstract, still genuine. That is me.Neptune has been holding the last degree of Pisces, that Great Stone Face, the image of an ideal that shapes the one who contemplates it long enough; this is the boy who grows into the mountain he stares at, the face carved by time into rock and into flesh. Saturn is turning direct at 26 Pisces, that New Moon that divides its influences, the moment where the sky is dark and the seed is present and you decide where you are going to plant it, which project, which path, which loyalty you are going to feed with your behavior. These two symbols together are very simple and very precise: what you have been idealizing is now asking for form, and the form is chosen by your behavior. No one chooses it for you. Saturn in Pisces closing its three-year cycle and Neptune sitting at the end of the zodiac are one threshold: endings that already contain the beginning, clarity about what no longer holds your face, and the first cut you make with your own will.Mainstream? F**k that.What is it to be mainstream? It means that somebody already did the hard work of carving a path, a few bold and courageous ones opened the way, then others followed because they trusted the elders and walked that path. By the time things are mainstream, the curve has already been drawn. It is no longer innovative. It is just the herd.That is why I really, simply, bloody hate the mainstream. Everything feels mainstream right now. open any social media app, most of the communication is a copy of a copy of a copy. Finding authenticity feels like finding a needle in a haystack.In these last degrees of Pisces, whether it is Saturn or Neptune still there, the amount of mirages and mirrors that are reflecting and projecting is multiplying. To find our own authenticity within this realm right now is something you do with every breath. It is every breath, not one meditation a week, not one retreat, not one ayahuasca journey, not one conversation with your therapist. It is every moment, all the time.These are crucial times, because as we enter 2026, we will see that whatever we were working on this year is taking shape.Behavior is the living definition of who we serve. Structure is the way we align our choices with the source we name and the source we trust. We say we trust, not belief. We trust, because source and the self are trust. If my God is coherence, then my behavior has to reflect coherence. If my God is the mainstream, then my behavior will keep copying the herd.Saturn turning direct in Pisces and moving towards Aries by next year, along with Neptune, is asking each one of us to decide which face we are carving with our actions, which temple we are building with our time, which God we are embodying with our every breath.Authenticity is more than a slogan or a nice word. It is a daily refusal to outsource our behavior to the collective form. That authenticity is defined by your integrity. It is how you synthesize your experience on this Earth.“I see a lot of this cancel culture happening in general, on the internet, for everyone. I think there is a need of much more culture of forgiveness. I would not cancel a friend because we think different. I try to stay connected with what my mission is, which is to make music from the most loving place possible.” -Rosalía LuxTalking about authenticity, I could not not talk about Rosalia’s latest album. It has moved me for the last two weeks. It is called Lux. It is an incredible masterpiece. I am not going to talk about her musical prowess because I am not a critic, but I can talk about what I feel is going on. She has actually spent the last three years of Saturn in Pisces going in and trying to find her own light, and she has said that everything that stemmed from that inner time is what came out in this record, and I can tell you that it is true. She also acknowledged being influenced by Leonard Cohen’s “ Anthem ,1992Ring the bells that still can ring.Forget your perfect offering.There is a crack in everything.That’s how the light gets in.But basically, she went deep, deep, deep and wanted to give it all in this album, and she did, both musically, lyric-wise, and in how she expresses herself right now. Her songs draw from saints, scripture, and mystics, including twelfth century abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and she even kept a world map of saints in her studio while she was composing. I actually never really cared about her or her work before, but for some reason I pressed play a couple of weeks ago on her new album, and I was completely taken by its depth, by its beauty, and by the way the light is coming through her voice. Lux in Latin means light, and right now she is emanating it. For her, this is a very personal relationship to source and to the light. It is a reminder that we all have that possibility, so thank you, Rosalia, for that. I am just going to drop a couple of songs that I find amazing. The whole album is a masterpiece, not just musically, but everything in it is just a delight. You can also listen to an interview that I am going to drop at the end. Be grateful. I am.The funny thing is that I am talking about individual and collective behavior, and Rosalia is just about to influence the collective, making the light mainstream, lol. Is that not something?Happy Thanksgiving. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

The Tenth house is the performing persona. How do I portray myself out there? Am I writing the best article? Am I speaking the right way? Am I at the right party? Am I meeting the right people? Am I climbing the ladder? Tenth house is b******t, especially in a place like New York. It can eat you up from the core, from the heart. But guess what, you do it. You do it because your ambition is so big that you are so ready to sacrifice everything else just to be in a position. And then when you are in that position, you say, what is all this for, what is all this for, at what cost.That is a tenth house. And I have my tenth house ruled by Scorpio, so it is very intense. Neptune sits on my Midheaven, so there has always been a doubt, a questioning of what power even means in the first place, and my Moon in Scorpio in the ninth, very close to the MC, keeps making me seek something that goes much deeper than external appearance. The ruler of that house Pluto, is my eighth house in Virgo, so I have a tendency to become even more critical about all the things that I needed to do to get to that place, because it is a direction. So even though there is no time, we treat it like a ladder, like you are escalating, you are arriving to the top. When you treat it with no time, when you see it as a purposeful life, things start deescalating and they start aligning, aligning.New York City is so FIAT. What does that mean. Fiat is the monetary system that we have been living under since the inception of the Federal Reserve and the moment the dollar was taken off gold in nineteen seventy one. Every single dollar that is made is fake, and the so called value is based on external things and not on real worth. That is what I mean when I say New York is so fiat. People are constantly projecting status, projecting the ladder, projecting ambitions. If the soul in question has no boundaries and merges with the lot, it can experience a sudden shock and eventually a big inner loss. Bitcoiners can be very FIAT, so I am not romanticizing…So right now what I feel is pure alignment to what my soul came to be, with struggle, with friction. I just came back from New York after five years of living happily in Miami Beach. I had been back in NYC briefly three times, but never more than one day, but this time I stayed a bit longer and it felt like a lifetime. There was not a single instant in that city that told me, oh my God, I am so sad I left. Every single instant was, my God, I am so happy I do not live here anymore, I do not play this game.There were moments that showed me this very clearly. I went to see my public art piece Duration at the Prospect Avenue station with my friend Efrat. It was bittersweet. I love what I did and at the same time it is not being taken care of. Then I finally visited the World Trade Center memorial. I had never been there since the towers collapsed, and I am still feeling strange about it, like a delayed encounter with a former timeline. And the highlight of everything was going to the MoMA and seeing Ruth Asawa’s work. That was the real nourishment. Everything else was encountering the old me with the new me and having my body adjust to those small moments of recognition.When I was in New York years ago, the performance was all about doing the right thing at the right time so I would get to the next level of the ladder. I was performing for an inner audience that only cared about the next step. Right now I do not operate like that. Right now I am aligned or I am misaligned, and that is what shows me if I am in the right place at the right time.I am just going to go very superficial with this, because there are so many layers that I am uncovering that will need to be processed within myself, within my practices, within my practitioners, and it may take a couple of months to really reveal the core of it, but I can summarize it in one thing. My progressed chart.As I progressWhen I was born the Sun was at six degrees of Taurus. In secondary progressions the Sun moves approximately one degree of the zodiac per year of life. Sixty one, almost sixty two years later, my progressed Sun is now at six degrees of Cancer. The Moon in progressions takes about twenty seven and a half years to circle back to the same spot, so it carries a different kind of timing. Right now the progressed Moon is at six degrees of Aquarius on my tenth house in the progressed chart. Six degrees of Aquarius is my Ascendant, and it is making a very interesting finger of God. That means one hundred fifty degrees to my progressed Sun Mercury at six degrees of Cancer in my third house, and to six degrees of Virgo in my fifth house, where Uranus is.This is very potent, because I just felt like an alien when I went to New York. I felt this is not the timeline that I am supposed to be in, but it was good, because it was so dephased, it was not really facing the same energy. I was able to see the difference. After that, when I got slightly overwhelmed with my body and I was releasing a lot of stuff, it drove me completely deep into the process of not just analyzing, but observing, observing and correlating. It is a profound landscape that I am observing, so many things changing.Last but not least, the South Node of the Moon in Virgo is just about to encounter my Pluto in the eighth house, so I have been feeling it, I have been really, really feeling it. And today, with this lunation that we had a few days ago, I have Mars and Juno square the Nodes that are in Virgo Pisces, and they square my Pluto and my Chiron. So this is charged, it is charged, and I am very grateful that I have the bandwidth, the willingness, the depth, the clarity, and the energy that it needs to go this deep. I will not bail out. This is all about evolution. And there are times in my life the evolutionary patterns have been kinder. Right now it is rough because this is what I need to see.Moving forthFrom an evolutionary astrology perspective, this whole configuration reads like a precise adjustment in my soul contract around the tenth house. Scorpio ruling that house with Pluto in Virgo in the eighth already describes lifetimes of intense investment in power structures, crisis, and shared resources, where survival and recognition were intertwined and where work in the world was fused with deep emotional entanglement and self analysis. The progressed Moon reaching six degrees of Aquarius on the progressed tenth and my natal Ascendant opens a new cycle of individuation in how I stand in the world; the yod from Uranus in Virgo in the fifth and Sun Mercury in Cancer in the third pushes my creativity and my voice into a new format, one that cannot keep reenacting the old tenth house ladder of New York performance, because the body and the nervous system are now telling the truth of my timing.The South Node moving toward Pluto in Virgo in the eighth brings forward prior life memory and unresolved material from those old structures, the places where I over committed, over served, or merged beyond my own needs. The square from Mars and Juno to the Nodes during this lunation intensifies the field, asking for clean anger, clean boundaries, and clean agreements in relationship so that my direction of growth in Pisces second house can stabilize around self worth, value, and inner resourcing rather than external validation. In this language, the trip to New York is the ritualized closing of a chapter in which the tenth house persona was built around externalist ambition, so that the same tenth house can now become the place where my soul purpose, my eighth house depth, and my Aquarius Ascendant align into a different form of visibility, less ladder, more frequency, less city script, more coherent home in my own authority.I want to speak about this further, but I have to say that since I have been observing and correlating my behavior with German New Medicine, GNM, I discovered a new tool that really will make me dive inner and deeper into resolutions without being stuck with the Virgo part of something as being wrong, or the part that everything needs to be perfect because it is not perfect, or it is perfect in the way the body aligns with the psyche and the rest, showing me that there is a way out. German New Medicine, GNM, is the framework I am using to track how specific emotional shocks and conflicts show up in my body, reading many of my symptoms as part of a meaningful biological program instead of random malfunction; it works with two main phases, conflict and resolution, and with precise links between themes like territory, abandonment, and power and specific tissues, so I can correlate what is happening in my nervous system with what is being resolved in my life. During this trip I had many symptoms that in the past I would have labeled as a cold or a virus or something to get rid of. This time I stayed with each of them as a message. I know I am dealing with territory, with abandonment, and with power issues. All together, what I have been doing this year is realigning my nervous system to the new person that I am. I will come back to this and go deeper, but I want to mark that this tool has opened deeper layers in my psyche, and I am very happy that I found it through the Friends of the Truth community that I joined over a month ago.The highlights of my last twelve days of not being home were that El Salvador was amazing, as always. I was given the opportunity to have three keynotes, which I will record and share one by one in the following weeks. I also saw people that I really care for and met new Bitcoiners that are going to be part of my life. It is such a beautiful place to see where needs and purpose meet in a meaningful way. I love that. I recorded an epidote with Efrat Fenigson for her podcast “You’re the Voice”, spending quality time with her is a gift. I saw that people are really building things and it feels powerful. Powerful is the word.Then New York was contraction. If El Salvador was expansion, New York was contraction, also because of the change of weather. It was cold, it was windy, it was dark. It was all about performance and about achievement, and I am done with that, so done with that. My body entered into different modes while I was in El Salvador, already feeling a bit disrupted with the energy. I managed to hold myself and was able to expand in areas that I needed to and stay still in other areas that I did not need to move. New York was contraction. I felt I needed to be very protective. I came back with the clear idea that protection is not about avoiding people or avoiding the right time. It is about alignment of certain things that I no longer need to prove to myself or to anybody, and that is golden.Home is where no external pressure defines me.Celestial mapMars in Sagittarius conjunct Juno, squaring the Virgo Pisces nodal axis, is putting every agreement and shared adventure under an evolutionary spotlight, so anything built on performance, obligation or borrowed ambition is being redirected toward honest desire, mutual truth and a sense of meaning that actually feeds life.The Sun at zero degrees of Sagittarius in opposition to Uranus retrograde at twenty nine degrees of Taurus stretches a live polarity between embodied security and the need for a new trajectory of vision and purpose, so sudden insights, shocks and reversals around value, work and direction can show exactly where the old costume no longer fits.With the Sun together with Black Moon Lilith, visibility and authority are infused with instinct and raw honesty, inviting the exiled parts of the self to step out of the wings and speak, so that what has been kept in shadow can quietly start to reshape how we stand in the world in these days around the lunation. 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What kind of silence in the outside world can teach the inner world of curiosity? There are so many things that I would like to share, but I have decided to withhold them for a bit because I want to savor the insights and the transformations that I am feeling, which have been rewiring my nervous system. Two thousand twenty-five will prove to be a very profound year for my own life, where I actually re-parent myself and really hold my space as a sacred one. I will come back with more information, but that is all I am going to say. It is a sacred place. I am not going to stop sharing; it is the way I am sharing that is being transformed.The Quiet and potent Pulse of a Cycle Turning: Scorpio New Moon:The new moon in Scorpio at 28° on the twentieth forms a deep interior chamber. Its conjunction with Black Moon Lilith in a balsamic tone brings material that has been stored in the emotional body, the memory of what has been held before articulation, as it is closing a cycle and beginning a new one. Mercury retrograde in kazimi concentrates perception at the core, where the message is received without distortion. The chart leans inward.Jupiter retrograde in Cancer trines the lunation and widens that internal field, expanding the place where the body recognizes truth, where nourishment is recalibrated, where instincts speak with clarity. This expansion moves through layers that need integration before expression, a slow internal movement that leads to impactful insights that may emerge.Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Pisces create a soft but firm boundary around this work, holding space where discernment, refinement, and spiritual hygiene become essential. Saturn is restructuring the subtle body, while Neptune is dissolving what no longer serves the rhythm in a potent end of an era. Together they create a quiet container.Uranus rx at twenty-nine degrees of Taurus stands as the threshold of the nervous system, signaling the completion of a seven-year cycle of instability, liberation, and internal reorientation. At this final degree, it distills the teaching: coherence through truth, awakening through embodiment, and the stability that forms when value is self-generated. You might have felt this past week as a shaking ground; I personally was able to rewire internally with adaptability.The timeline between December eleven and seventeen becomes the moment when the message is illuminated. Mercury and the Moon will cross the same Scorpio degree with direct motion, allowing what surfaced in November to be understood without interference. Integration becomes visible. The inner work gains articulation. What was sensed becomes named.P.S. all presentations in El Salvador went really well, I will bring some documentation next week or so… happy New Moon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

note when I was recording the article, I went rogue in many parts, and I decided to leave the text as is, and the recording aswell…Time and FrequencyI knew I had to get on the road again. I remember years ago when I used to love to travel, open my suitcase, drop some clothes, and put myself on an airplane, just going to the next adventure. I have done a lot of traveling since I was a little girl. Once my father died, my mom taught us that the best way to live our lives was to enjoy them, because we never knew what was going to happen next. Of course, she was speaking from losing her husband at age thirty-six , and leaving four young kids without a father.She gave us opportunities to educate ourselves, to travel the world, to learn different languages, and to understand life through an open and wide perspective. So thank you, Mom, for that.I lived in many different places throughout my life. I won’t list them all right now, but I was always used to being in one place and then another. Things changed a lot in 2020 when I moved to Miami Beach. It’s not that I hate traveling now, but I don’t like it as much, because I’ve understood that my energy as a Manifestor needs its own space. When I look back, I see I don’t have a defined G Center, gravity center, identity center, so I used to merge with people, situations, and places, and I would always feel like I wanted to run away.Now, when I travel, which is usually short, I make sure I am in a comfortable place, in the right company, and that I always have an escape route, because I need to feel that I have options all the time.It has changed. When I was growing up, travel gave me the world and open horizons. Now it helps me shift perspective, but I make sure I am not misaligned. Traveling has become more about awareness, of environment, of energy, of company. I pay attention to whether I will align with the energy around me. I remain open to expansion and to changing perspective.Next week, I’ll start traveling again. Not too long, but long enough to write this reflection.I became a carnivore, one hundred percent, so it’s easy for me to find food anywhere. Just red meat, it’s simple. Still, I like to prepare by bringing some dried meat, just in case I’m somewhere without access to animal protein. Of course, I can always eat eggs. I adapt easily when I travel; I’m not rigid. But I do like to be comfortable, to bring what I need, to take care of myself. That’s a very Taurus function, I make sure my needs are met, so there’s no suffering, only joy.Next week, I’m going to El Salvador for the second time. Last year was my first visit, and it was amazing to begin speaking at conferences. That was my first keynote, and I was nervous, but it went well. This time, I’ll give three keynotes: Bitcoin as a State of Consciousness, Bitcoin and Austrian Economics 101 in Spanish, which I already presented six months ago in Dallas for BitBlockBoom, and one for the Mi Primer Bitcoin Unconference, the curriculum I’ve been using to teach people willing to invest in understanding what Bitcoin truly is.Then, the following week, I’ll travel with my friend You're The Voice | by Efrat Fenigson (follow her if you have not already!) to New York for almost a week. Since I left in 2020, it’ll be the first time I stay more than one night. I had been avoiding that city; I don’t have connections there anymore. My views completely changed my circles, and I lost contact with many people from my past.“𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀—𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘆—𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽.” — 𝗜. 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗼Going with Efrat will be fantastic because I’ll experience the city from a new perspective, the one I have now.Perspective is something we tend to hold too tightly, because we want to define ourselves so eagerly that we forget that if we stay too long in one perspective, we may rot. This is a big call for me, because I have Jupiter, perspective, on my third house of ideas in Taurus, which grounds me and makes me resist change.To provoke, invoke and what leads to your callingSince 2018, when Uranus entered Taurus, I’ve learned through disruption, trauma, erratic movement, and liberation to be more flexible. I realized I was holding on to too many patterns out of fear of the new. Perspective is motion, and exploration through curiosity and valor.Having three planets in Taurus, I move slowly. I take time to make decisions. And having emotional authority in my Human Design, I need that time for my body to feel what’s true.I feel ready. I feel excited. I finished all my deadlines. I feel blessed, grateful, optimistic, playful, alive.I have to share what I celebrated with Kai during my last session: about a week ago:I have really put myself in situations where I have changed my perspective by becoming very courageous about things such as leaving New York with no idea if Miami Beach was going to be my place. That led me to open up to other communities online, where I studied many things that are so purposeful for me right now: natural law, common law, Austrian economics, Bitcoin, drama, compassionate inquiry, non-violent communication, Jungian shadow work. I deepened my practice in Human Design and Evolutionary Astrology, and I keep my mind open to changing points of view.It’s just like what I wrote last week about energies aligning. This is what I mean: when you start living your truth and aligning with it, everything starts falling into place, and I love it. Just love it.“I don’t need to maintain the thread to keep the meaning. I can let time and frequency do their work.”Let’s talk a little bit about Uranus re-entering Taurus at twenty-nine degrees this week of November and defining the meaning of it.If Uranus for me was shaking my ground since 2018, that ground shaking is what gave me stability. This is really interesting. The erratic nature of Uranus has given me more stability than I could ever imagine, because it helped energize my nervous system and taught me that change is the only constant. By being able to change perspective, I realized I was always going to evolve rather than grasp for certainty at all times. That has been the major change in my life since 2018.Now that we’re going to dip back into it, I’m visiting an old friend. It is in my fourth house, so even during this process of Uranus being in my fourth house, I experienced the loss of my mother, who was such a stabilizing figure in my life. She was so grounding for me after my father died, but I had to understand that the passage of her life was going to bring me the full completion of my inner authority.Uranus Retrograde in TaurusUranus retrograding back into the final degrees of Taurus is a return to the essence of embodiment, where stability and instability are one field. The fourth house speaks to home, belonging, and the emotional root system. Here, Uranus acts like lightning moving through ancestral memory, awakening what has been held too tightly and liberating what has been unconsciously carried. Since 2018, this transit has been teaching the nervous system to adapt to freedom as an organic rhythm of life. For those with deep Taurus placements, the task has been to learn that true grounding comes from within, through awareness, and far away from being controlling that is fear.The departure of the mother archetype marks the passage from inherited stability to inner authority. It signifies the shift from external containment to self-defined sovereignty. As Uranus completes its time in Taurus by end of April 2026, this final retrograde invites a last recalibration of what I call home, grounding a frequency that shapes my life within.Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius and ScorpioMercury, the quick and logical mind, is now in Sagittarius, expanding its reach and exploring ideas across vast terrains of thought. But as it prepares to retrograde back into Scorpio, it asks us to trace what was left behind, to revisit what we understood only conceptually and embody it through depth. This movement from Sagittarius back into Scorpio is a deepening, a return to the pulse beneath knowledge.Opposing Uranus in Gemini, retrograding through Taurus, Mercury’s retrograde asks for integration between mental speed and nervous stability. so collecting more ideas is a no-no but understanding which frequencies of thought are sustainable to live by. Sagittarius gives us the vision; Scorpio demands the truth beneath it.Remembering Emotional ValueJupiter is about to retrograde in Cancer. The last time Jupiter was in Cancer was around 2014, when Uranus was in Aries, forming a square between the two. Around that time, social media began to have a massive impact on individuality: likes, metrics, followers, influencers, Kardashians, you name it. It was the dawn of content creation as identity. It felt like liberation, a new kind of autonomy, but one has to ask if that expansion brought society closer to emotional connection or pushed it toward fragmentation.Now, after Uranus has moved through the full process of Taurus and is completing its journey, the question becomes: what did you find valuable in yourself? Did you liberate yourself from external definitions of worth? or you are still counting likes?For me, this Jupiter in cancer with Uranus in Taurus (sextile) this period is when I expanded my education and love for Bitcoin, Austrian economics, and began solidifying my emotional body through them. Jupiter in Cancer expands that structure, giving me stability through meaning, allowing emotion and value to merge. That is when the archetype of the teacher emerges in me, the one capable of translating experience into guidance. Next week, I’ll give three keynotes, and it feels like a culmination of that long inner expansion, sharing what I’ve been embodying the last years. Around November 10, Mercury begins its retrograde, followed by Jupiter turning retrograde in Cancer on the 12th. These movements invite a collective pause, an inward look at where our energy belongs. Venus in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius, ruled by Uranus now retrograding in Taurus. Boom 💥. This alignment reveals the truth about belonging. It asks if we are standing in communities that honor authenticity, or if we are still trying to fit into frequencies that no longer match our evolution. This is a moment of truth: are we part of a herd, or are we liberated from mental indoctrination and aligning with our true purpose?Wednesday Nov 5th:I wrote this on the Full Moon in Taurus, exactly opposing my natal Full Moon in Scorpio, I feel a deep condensation of release taking place. This is the half-Metonic mirror of the cycle that began around 2014 when I chose to leave my marriage and step into self-reliance. The same axis that shaped the inner shift of 2006–2007 rises again and shows me how much of that earlier time was defined by seeking grounding outside myself, by holding on to what felt safe, and how that longing guided many choices. This lunation brings closure to that pattern as my mother’s grounding presence, once the structure of my life, becomes an inner stability that belongs only to me. The alchemy of Taurus and Scorpio reminds me that peace and depth move as one truth, so I release the imprints of control, loss, and survival that no longer define me and integrate a quieter power that feels like home in my body, preparing me to meet Uranus re-entering Taurus and the path of inner authority I am already living.The Map of BecomingWhen I look back, I can see how this Taurus–Scorpio axis has been the map of my becoming.April 25, 2013 — The lunar eclipse in Scorpio landed right on my Taurus Sun, Jupiter, and Mercury. It shook the foundation of everything I called safe. That eclipse cracked the surface of my marriage and exposed how much of my security was built on fear of change. By July 4, 2013, I was ready to walk away, but that was the day my ex-husband’s mother died, and I stayed. It was the first fracture, the one that made it impossible to go back to sleep.November 6, 2014 — The Full Moon in Taurus brought the same question back: what was real stability, and what was habit? By December 19, 2014, I left for good. That moment fell inside the half-Metonic rhythm, the mirror point between the light that birthed me and the light that now returns reversed. It marked the beginning of my Second-House education, learning how to live through my own value.May 3–4, 2015 — The Full Moon in Scorpio aligned within one degree of my natal Moon. I had just completed the Vatican commission at the Venice Biennale; it felt like triumph and liberation. Yet that victory opened a deeper lesson, learning worth without validation, safety without control.Now, in November 2025, the Full Moon in Taurus opposing the Sun in Scorpio reflects that entire journey back to me. It has been ten to twelve years since those crossings, and I feel the cycle closing, there is so much peace within. My Second and Eighth Houses are active again with the transiting lunar nodes, while Saturn and Neptune square my natal nodes, pressing me to define and dissolve at once. Venus and Mercury both retrograded through my Second House this year, turning the theme of value into a living meditation.The virtue I chose for this year is discernment, and every transit has become its teacher. The astrology and my own intention have met perfectly in this space. I can feel a full release of that old pain. I am completely healed. What began as loss has become embodiment. The quiet strength I was searching for is here, my own awareness, steady, clear, and enough.Thank you, Mom. I’m good already.CodaBefore I close, I want to ask: are you aware of where Uranus is transiting in your chart? Where Jupiter is expanding and Mercury is retracing its steps? For me, Mercury is retrograding through my tenth house, revisiting the way I communicate my work and presence in the world. It feels like a review of purpose, voice, and direction, a reminder that public expression must stay aligned with inner truth. These transits are collective, but they move through each of us personally, opening a dialogue between what we build outside and what we sustain within.Every cycle brings us back to the same frequency: to embody truth and transmit value from lived experience., for me that is the real journey. This great channel just popped and I was taken.So many mysterious things are happening to me as I have invited them in my life This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

“As I wrote in The Nature of My Reality energy, power, and motion intertwine within the realm of creation. The same process that transforms effort into value is the one that animates consciousness itself, a continuous act of weighing options and arriving at a choice.” Every thought, instinct, emotion, and consideration forms a current of movement within consciousness, an energetic economy of decision-making.What is Praxeology? the study of intentional human behavior. “It recognizes that our choices aren’t arbitrary but purposeful, driven by subjective needs, all within the context of scarce resources.” Energy then is not only physical or electrical, it is psychic, emotional, moral, the power to direct one’s own motion. The quality of the intention determines the quality of the energy. Because if energy is everything, it must be understood as something that, if I care how it is produced, transformed, or converted, I am going to take one specific part of that energy that is intention, and I am going to make it valuable. Because if I just focus on a partial part of that energy that is transformed into effort and is transformed into decision-making, that energy is very potent.What is Opportunity cost? To make a choice means to give up another; every act takes place at the margin, in the present, where I decide to invest my time, my attention, my energy. The margin is the precise moment of transformation, where value is created because one possibility is chosen over another; every decision implies an unseen field of alternatives, and what I do not choose remains as potential energy, unmanifested. Each choice is therefore a concentration of energy, I am always allocating, always directing, always investing my awareness. The cost of any choice lies in the possibilities it excludes, beyond the time or resources it consumes: the margin reveals the law of creation itself: energy derives its value through clarity, purposeful application, and the awareness of scarcity.Astrology reflects the same principle, where energy moves through archetypal systems of exchange and value.Energy is the currency of decision; Time becomes value through attention as energy becomes value through intention; every act carries a cost, because it concentrates what I am willing to give myself to.We can see this in the astrological trinity, where sign, ruler, and house form one unified archetype, expressing past, present, and future as a single movement of consciousness. Each archetype contains its own memory, its own timing, its own direction, grounding the experience of reality within the third dimension. * The archetype of initiation and individuality ignites life into motion.* The one that fuels and values sustains what is needed.* The one that instigates and connects opens communication and circulation.* The one that embraces and feels safe roots belonging and emotional memory.* The one that validates and brings light expresses the will to create and to be seen.* The one that refines, discerns, and edits keeps what serves and releases what does not.* The one that relates to all things brings balance, resonance, and shared value.* The one of metamorphosis confronts and transforms, teaching death and regeneration.* The one that seeks truth and expands horizons gives faith to evolution itself.* The one that defines and gives direction establishes order, structure, and integrity.* The one that liberates and innovates reveals what is beyond conditioning.* And the one that dissolves and brings back to source completes the cycle of return.These are twelve expressions of the same field, twelve frequencies of energy moving through different phases of becoming, each archetype reveals how energy is exchanged, released, and reabsorbed within the wholeness of consciousness.Consciousness itself expands beyond the visible dimensions, yet what matters is how we apply that awareness in the present. Every decision is a concentration of energy, a lived expression of intention.Energy is the field of creation and the proof of value, acting as the invisible accounting of our choices, the way we measure what matters by what we give ourselves to: at every margin we decide, and in that decision we define worth.If energy is everything, its value depends on the awareness we bring to it: energy becomes value through intention, just as time becomes value through attention. Every act, every thought, every motion of will carries an opportunity cost, the unseen alternative we release in order to create what is chosen.To live with awareness of that exchange is to live as creator within the field of energy itself.FULL MOON in Taurus: (The Sun conjuncts my Moon/Neptune MC)I’m confronting old patterns of codependency, as frequencies that no longer match my vibration, these were stubborn obsessions once.So the question becomes:Do I want to hold on to an addiction or a relationship that is no longer flowing?The relationship itself is a wavelength, and I can recognize when I’m no longer connected to it. This is another way of confronting fear through frequency, I’m tuning into a different vibration, and that’s why the resonance shifts; the results are no longer about a person, situation, or thing, but about how I attune to them.When I feel that something causes pain or distortion, I become aware of the dissonance, and through deep breathing and acknowledgment, I realize that I can tune into a different state of mind, in doing so, I integrate it with clarity, seeing it for what it is—a sign to tune into another octave of resonance. As the current one stagnates, the result naturally flows.All this is very evident now that the South Node of the Moon in Virgo is transiting my eighth house, approaching my natal Pluto. I see this as an opportunity to refine the way I relate in the most raw and honest way through my own psychology, when connection reaches that depth, it can easily turn into obsession. It becomes a thing. But I no longer want to relate through obsession, I want to move in and out of connection as naturally as the waves of the ocean, allowing intensity to rise and recede without losing myself in its tide.This Scorpio season is always generous in giving me insights; the Sun is now transiting near my Moon in the ninth house, and as I write this, the Moon in Pisces is conjunct my Chiron and the North Node in my second house. There is a breakthrough. I just had a moment of clarity through all these weeks where, through alignment and deep breathing techniques, I became aware of this, so I’m grateful for that. Scorpio is all about metamorphosis.The Full Moon is coming this week, and it will be in Taurus. Taurus is all about needs and values. The Full Moon will happen on Tuesday, November 5th. It anchors everything that Scorpio season has excavated. The polarity between Taurus and Scorpio always asks how we hold value while releasing control—how we embody stability without resisting change. The Moon in Taurus reflects what endures; the Sun in Scorpio reveals what must transform. Together they create the balance between form and essence, possession and surrender.Venus now forms a Finger of God at 28° Libra with Neptune and Uranus, marking the third stance to take this role after Mars around the eclipse on September 21st and the New Moon in Libra on October 21st. This alignment feels like the closing of a cycle where harmony and clarity of values determine what to keep and what to release. This Yod signals divine recalibration. Venus carries the tone of essential needs and relational values, and deep listening to self and other to carry leverage, while Uranus calls for liberation from old attachments and Neptune dissolves illusion. As the focal point, Venus refines how we experience resources, money, talent, and relationships to other people, situations, and things, inviting us to align without expectation, control, or attachment. A refinement that shifts attention from what we want to how we vibrate.The year 2025 has been an extraordinary year for working on values, especially as it has been activating my second house directly.Mars has just entered Sagittarius, expanding that theme into action. Evolutionarily, this is the call to act from vision rather than reaction, to channel through meaningful fire. Mars here is exploring higher purpose, leaving the survival mode behind in Scorpio, learning to aim energy toward trust and empirical discovery. Supported by its trine to Saturn and Neptune, Mars grounds inspiration into form and turns ideals into lived practice, while its sextile to Pluto makes this a time of empowered, conscious will—energy that moves through integrity rather than control.When Mars opposes Uranus, old impulsive habits break apart, releasing the need to define freedom through rebellion. True liberation comes from alignment. With Jupiter in Cancer trining this Mars, there’s generosity in the process—confidence that expansion deepens it. Basically, there is zero resistance threatening security.The Moon in Taurus brings us back to values, needs, and what is essential in our lives. Are you still getting rid of what no longer aligns with your frequency? Last week I released more clothes, objects, and old stagnated perspectives, and I feel lighter. This is what Taurus reminds us of: simplicity, value, and grounding after transformation. Altogether, this Full Moon and these transits form a frequency of recalibration:Venus finds harmony.Mars expands truth.Uranus liberates old ideas.Neptune attunes to imaginary beautiful outcomes.Pluto transforms your stake in society.The Taurus–Scorpio polarity signals that evolution is renewal. The energy we release through awareness returns purified.This is the evolutionary message of early November:Value is frequency.Real power is presence.Real creation begins once we no longer hold the old vibration.I recently listened to Michael Philip and Danny Goler — “The Hidden Code Behind Consciousness and the Simulation” and it brought me to some conclusions at the end of the following quote that is part of the podcast: “…you know, your own, what you conceived of as yourself, you can start to have this almost messiah-like complex thinking, oh, I’m special now. I found this special thing and these f*****g normie idiots don’t get it. All these things, acknowledge them. And yet, I do think it is directionally quite possible. Quite possible. Well, no, it’s exactly what’s happening. Only the thing that you mentioned with the messiah complex, it’s actually very clear to me what’s happening there. So basically, this is something I spoke with Gallimore when we sat down in LA. And so the way I see it is that every new reality that is created, it has the ultimate word, the ultimate instantiation of the truth reverberating, everything that is already known reverberating in the fabric of that existence itself, in our case, space-time. So this is, and beings are evolving alongside of it and towards it. And the second they reach the level where they start matching what the knowledge is, they now get to add to it. Yes. But not until that moment. So when you, by the fact that you acquired certain level of evolution, intellectually, spiritually, it doesn’t matter in what way, you start matching the angle and the intensity of what is already known by the creation, but not everything is known. The reason everything is happening is because there’s one thing that is not known by anyone in existence, which is why everything exists. And what is happening is that all of these realities are ran in order to try and answer that question. So basically, when you started reaching this level of awareness of what in fact is going on, then you’re all of a sudden, by the fact that you can do these things, you’re acquiring tools that gives you the ability to now add to the grid. Now the grid is going to learn something through you, from you that it didn’t know before. And when that started happening, you start noticing the pre-recorded messages of urgency, transcendence, all of these notes, that if you take them to mean stuff about you personally, you now start suffering from an anxiety complex. So basically, it’s like Princess Leia comes in a pre-recorded message, but in this case, she’s talking just generally to whomever finds the message. And existence does that. But if you take it to mean you, so like you’re in the presence of it, so you’re like, oh me, that’s exactly what happens. And that’s how people basically devolve into that. But if you understand that the message is available for everyone, you literally just need to notice it, then you realize it’s not about you personally, it’s about we are doing this all together, joint. That’s basically what the confusion I think is happening there.”“Yeah. Something you said there really resonated with me because there’s this concept that’s a huge mind f**k that I was trying to process at some point reading one of the platonic thinkers. I don’t remember if it was Plotinus or who it was, but it was a bit more down the rabbit hole. And it was along these lines of that the highest level of knowing this noesis frame of mind that’s so hard to communicate what exactly they mean by this. But it’s a knowing and a being at the same time. And that really felt like what you were describing. It’s like you reach these states of consciousness where it’s not just like a knowledge, it’s like you are, I don’t want to say vibrating at that level because it sounds so cliche and so new age and I don’t want to align myself with that, with vibrations necessarily, but kind of like that. It’s like there’s literally a part of your psyche or soul that is like resonating with a different plane, which is also a plane of mental, right? It’s a plane of mental reality, particularly in idealist context. This makes sense that if reality is essentially like layers of mental realities that eventually culminate in one ultimate layer, or you could use it as one most basic layer of reality, I think, it would make sense that you’re also somehow being at that level and thinking at that level at the same time. And that’s something that’s really hard to wrap your mind around from this POV, like consensus reality POV, yet when you’re doing it, I think it does make sense.”“I actually think it’s a lot less of a mystery if we really pay attention because I don’t think it’s ever not that. It’s just that we don’t notice it’s that.”“I would agree. Yeah, and you’re right. It is to some degree a problem with the way that we learn how to think about the world in the modern world in which the academic way of seeing it is kind of king, right? But I would say that even intellectuals, the way I define it, and terms are really important here, the way I define knowing or understanding is a state of being. Now, you might think of it in terms of like, well, what do you mean? I calculated this thing and then I understood it. What you don’t notice is that when you occupy the state of actual understanding, like deep understanding of something, let’s say even in mathematics, something very technical, there’s deep catharsis there. It’s very much in your body. You just don’t notice it. But the fact that it feels good, it tells you that it’s instantiated as a state in the body, which entails the ability to see clearly even the technical stuff. So when you truly understand something, you don’t need to ask things about it or analyze it in roundabouts. You don’t need to say things about it. You just see it for what it is. And you can understand it from a very holistic perspective. You can turn it in your head. You can understand the logic of its operations. All of that is what I call knowing. That’s actual understanding of something, right? And there’s no need to mince words. As long as we understand what we’re trying to say, that’s all that matters. You can swap the words. You can say, some people like to call it comprehension. Some like to call it knowing. That’s fine. But it’s not like the word is the thing, right? We’re just trying to point to something. What I’m pointing to is that state of full embodiment of what the other thing is. That’s what I call understanding. And it is always a state of being. So when you go up the levels, it’s just more of that that you can occupy within your state of awareness, including in your body, of course. Otherwise, the knowledge is not actually instantiated fully until you feel it.”Quite a trip→: Danny Goler — “The Hidden Code Behind Consciousness and the Simulation” (approx 55:00 – 1:03:10)MY take Comparing it to Dimensional AwarenessDanny Goler’s description of “realities that are created” and a “grid that learns through you” parallels Barbara Hand Clow’s dimensional cosmology in The Alchemy of Nine Dimensions. His “ultimate word reverberating through the fabric of existence” echoes her view that each dimension carries the harmonic memory of all others. When he names “one thing not known by anyone in existence” as the reason everything unfolds, he is voicing her ninth-dimensional premise: the universe evolves through its own ongoing discovery. The “messiah-complex” distortion he identifies corresponds to her warning about fourth-dimensional inflation—when collective signals are misread as personal revelation. His insistence that true understanding is “a state of being… instantiated in the body” aligns with her fifth-dimensional embodiment of knowing. Both describe consciousness as a living architecture in which awareness refines itself by resonating through multiple layers of reality.So, dear reader, I leave you with something to ponder: what state of being are you tuning into? What level of awareness shows you the way out of the simulation and directs your soul toward the evolution you signed up for? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

I don’t know where the last ten months have gone, but it feels like an accelerated timeline. I won’t have much time to write on Substack in the next few weeks because I managed to create a lot of deadlines for myself, all fantastic, but they need my full attention. So I’m just going to write a short one for the week of October 28.Scorpio season is f💥cking intense, but I do love Scorpio. That’s where my Moon are Neptune are. Scorpio is great because it’s all about engaging with. When in fear and aligned with that fear, it’s about merging, absorbing, becoming one with it. And in that process of metamorphosis, when you come out the other side, you’re a new person. This is what’s needed right now: to be brave enough, courageous enough to engage with our fears. Because on the other side of the rainbow there is light. There’s a pot of gold waiting for you to pick up, but that must be done by yourself. You cannot have an assistant. You gotta do it yourself.Now, the thing with Scorpio, or Pluto energy is that the will or desire to evolve is so big that you merge and become one with it, and that can lead to a kind of addiction. So all addictive patterns that you can detect in your life are places to start.I recently wrote something about peptides and how I see people using all kinds of substances. I’m not criticizing, I’m just observing behavior, I’m good at observing behaviors because that’s what I study: the behavior of humanity, the behavior of markets, how things are flowing or not. I can see the bumps ahead, but it’s not about controlling, it’s about accepting that the energy is going here or there.So the invitation for Scorpio season, after these eclipses, with Neptune already going back to Pisces and Uranus about to do the same, to go back to Taurus, is that there’s going to be a lot of déjà vu. You might think, I’ve gone through this sh*t already, what the f* is going on? It’s going to be interesting to say the least.I’m going to do a reading for the first quarter square on October 29 at six degrees of Scorpio, squaring six degrees of Aquarius, forming a f💥cking T-square with my Sun in Taurus. The Moon conjunct Pluto and Pallas Athena in Aquarius exposes emotional truth and collective tension, while Jupiter squaring Venus in Libra reminds us to refine how we value what we need. Mars at the end of Scorpio and Mercury preparing to turn retrograde keep the energy sharp, restless, and probing for freedom.This configuration carries the vibration of crisis in action. Pluto squaring the Sun demands that power be embodied, not projected. Mars inconjunct Chiron calls for courage in the face of change. Courage is not still or passive. It is action, movement, the willingness to evolve. When this pattern touches my Taurus Sun, it presses on stability so I can no longer identify safety with stillness. Scorpio insists on movement through feeling, where matter becomes metamorphosis and attachment becomes transformation. This week’s field says: evolution is participation. The soul evolves by moving toward what it fears, breathing into what shakes it, and claiming desire as the current through which consciousness becomes real.1440/480 = 3 I did something courageous in the last few days. After I recorded the podcast with Joel and Yerasimos, I kept thinking about how they resonate together. I really like the frequency between them. I felt very curious, to consider the possibility of joining their community Friends of the Truth.I felt an unmistakable resonance, a harmonic call that I could sense in my body. The alignments revealed deep correspondence between our charts — bridges of purpose, healing, and regeneration that mirrored my own process of reclaiming value and transforming pain into creative power.And mind you, I haven’t been in a community since 2022, when I decided to withdraw from all kinds of spaces that felt tight. This Friends of the Truth community, FOTT, is closed and it’s a place that I call my dojo. It’s a place where I’m practicing many of the things that I’ve been integrating since I withdrew in 2022, because I wanted to dive deeper into my relational values: how I relate to groups, how I relate to people, situations, and things, and mostly, how I relate in intimacy. That has been the work that I’ve been doing very consciously, both with Kai and with Mark Jones in the last years. So joining a tight community was a turning point last week.I had a vivid dream during a meditation back in February 2024 where I was given some codes, some numbers. When I received the number 1440 back in February 2024, my first impression was that it referred to minutes. There are 1440 minutes in a day. During meditation, I asked, “Are you referring to time?” and received a yes. “Is it minutes?” No. “Is it days?” Yes. Then I asked, “Should I look forward and backward?” and the voice said yes. Forward led me to January 26, 2028, when I will have a solar eclipse exactly on my Ascendant with Pluto. When I went backward, it led to the beginning of the plandemic. There is nothing casual about this….I was told to divide 1440 into 3, three phases of 480 days each, starting from that date in February 2024 and extending forward.The first phase ran from February 2024 until June 15, 2025. During that period, my work has been all about studying and acquiring information, learning practical things that would be needed in case a new civilization is being born. That is really what I believe is unfolding from 2026 onward. This first phase has been about deep observation, research, and building the foundation of knowledge—everything from markets to frequency, from astrology to consciousness—so that I can embody wisdom through lived experience.The second phase began in June 2025, when Jupiter was conjunct my North Node, and will continue until October 3, 2026. This phase is about aligning with my energy, letting go of accumulated information, clearing habits and attachments, and leaving space open to resonate with people who share a similar vibration. It’s about integrating what I’ve studied, finding coherence, and practicing relational refinement in real time. That’s why, when I felt the invitation through the podcast, not a direct invitation but an energetic one, I knew it was something I wanted to connect to.The third phase will begin on October 3, 2026, and continue until January 26, 2028, when I’ll experience both my Pluto return on the Ascendant and a solar eclipse that is conjunct the same degree, coinciding with the South Node of the United States being activated that day. It represents a full rebirth, the emergence of a new being. Nothing is a coincidence. Everything in my chart always points to realignment. Everything I’m doing now and still discovering is in preparation for that moment onward, simplifying, grounding, and creating space for what wants to come through.I sat with this vision for a whole year. I waited for my emotional wave a couple of weeks ago and then felt, okay, this is it. I really like the dynamic of this group and I feel that I made the right decision. I love myself for taking the time to do these things.This week I did something fantastic too. I took a lot of things out of my closet, clothes, shoes, coats I’ll never use again because I’m not planning to live in the North Pole or any latitude with harsh winters. And even if I do, I’ll decide what to do then. I kept very few clothes and decided to give the rest away.I had already done something really big in the summer when I let go of my storage unit where I kept all the process of my work, my artwork that made me an artist back in New York. This sort of opening and letting go has been a ritual of refinement, asking what are the things, situations, and people that I still need in my life to keep moving onward.I did that the whole week and I feel much lighter. I’ve been refining a lot of things in my life, from memberships to clothes to storage and habits and attitudes. It’s a beautiful year, 2025.Zooming out from the personal field, I see the same cycles playing out collectively. The last time Saturn and Neptune were together in Pisces was at the dawn of the Civil War in the United States. They meet roughly every thirty-six years, marking eras of ideological confusion, creative renewal, and spiritual reorientation.Now, what I do see as well—and I don’t feel any fear—is that there is going to be a period of confusion because we’re seeing a lot of socialism coming into the world, especially in New York City. From all the capitals of capitalism in the world, we have a grand majority that doesn’t understand money, doesn’t understand the economy, and are going to vote, unfortunately, for somebody who is the most deceiving character after Obama. But here I am, almost laughing about it, because people have not done the homework.We’ll see. When Saturn and Neptune join forces, there’s always this big blob of confusion around, like there are no boundaries. Everybody wants to feel communal, but then when they wake up in Aries in March next year, the people who have made decisions with no thought in their brains will wake up to a very harsh reality. So let’s hope for the best.have a great week Recommendations: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

It seems these matters are in the air.I came across Bergson’s line again — that reality is not made of fixed things but of becoming, a continuous flow of duration.I’ve been writing about consciousness and the architecture of awareness — how form, sound, and perception unfold as one field.Maybe that’s what this moment keeps asking us to remember: that to be alive is to be in motion, to be becoming.I. Orientation and Early CoordinatesAfter writing about Neptune in Pisces and the way the next months until February 2026 will draw a veil between what is dissolving and what is becoming form, I find myself entering a quieter space. I want to look at the nature of our reality, what defines it, and what lies just beyond the grasp of thought yet still belongs to consciousness.I have always lived between intuition and logic.Sound and resonance became my language long before I had words for them. In the past years, I have studied Bio-geometry and explored frequency through sound with tuning forks, humming, the vibration plate, and breathwork, observing how vibration organizes space. I am an intuitive person, but I anchor myself through structure, through systems, numbers, and harmonics, always measuring and tuning in.Since childhood I have had a set of voices, a soft intelligence in my left ear, and growing up I would call them “my consciousness” or “awareness.” They were like three old men in robes who lived on the top floor of my mind. They knew every movement and thought, and I learned not to lie to them. Years later I realized I had the capacity to observe myself from the outside, tuning into that perspective to gain clarity. These inner voices guide me; they offer information before events unfold.Aside from that, my instincts have always been sharp because I can smell deceit from afar. And I am grounded as well in a more philosophical warrior nature. Why fight to survive if there is no meaning? That attitude makes me relentless. I aim to live a purposeful life and do everything in my power to achieve it as it fuels my root center.When I studied Taoism and then Buddhism (early 2000s through 2010s), I was searching for how form and emptiness intertwine with each other. After years of integration, qigong, Taoist cosmology, meditation and contemplation practices, my attention has turned to the ontological, to how consciousness works and how it forms itself into experience. Being so empirical, there is an inner need to experience knowledge, through books, through direct transmissions, and as holistic integration in my life.A Conscious Mind Can Alter RealityTake Taoism, what are these energetic meridians that run in the body, how the seasons and the hours in the day relate to their energy organ functions? How can I trace my design within divine order? Movement, chanting and prayer opened a window for healing early on, the teachings made sense, and every time I saw myself getting attached to a school, philosophy, or a teacher, I left; I want to be my own person this lifetime.When I practice reading charts, astrological, harmonic, relational, I am training the same movement between order and intuition. The chart gives me numbers, angles, and aspects; these are my coordinates. They ground me so that I can open perception. As I connect with the person I am reading for, information begins to organize itself into patterns that are not visible on the chart. It is as if logic holds the doorway open for intuition to enter. Robert Monroe would call this tuning to a frequency band, Courtney Brown would call it gathering nonlocal data, and Federico Faggin might say consciousness is recognizing its own information. For me it feels like listening to resonance until it becomes language; my language.II. Instruments & MethodsEquilibrium finds itself on the gravity line The same process happens when I study financial markets. In the past years I have been learning to read the wavelength of Bitcoin, following price through time as if it were a heartbeat. Numbers, volumes, averages, Ichimoku lines, Fibonacci ratios, Gann’s Square of Time and Price, all these are harmonic structures. They reveal the rhythm of collective emotion, the wave of trust and fear moving through matter. When I look at these patterns long enough, something arises; the chart stops being external and becomes an extension of my own field. It is consciousness reading itself through the logic of number in relationship with movement or energy. See new section that launched where I am sharing weekly chart readings) This is why limitation matters to me, because when I work on a public art commission, I begin with limitations such as the budget, the space, and the theme. What the community needs gives me the coordinates within the field as they define where I can begin; ideas are born as I research the place, its light, its people, its invisible history, and its landscape. Then I open through meditation and intuition to receive what wants to take form there. At times the ideas arrive as images, tones, and other times as fragments of geometry, as I gather them like clues and start shaping the visual sketches. Then color becomes a frequency and lines become rhythm. Form becomes a statement, when I share this with commissioners, their feedback helps me clarify the intention. It is a long process of trust; I trust myself channeling; they trust their large budget on my abilities to deliver. Once the intention and concept are clear, I can improvise freely, translating the unseen into the physical. At times it feels like a dialogue between the higher and lower octaves of reality, between the universe of infinite ideas and more specific material.Consciousness, as I experience it, is a field made of resonance, sometimes silence, sometimes vibration, both within and around. Ian McGilchrist describes the brain’s hemispheres as two modes of attention, one that grasps, one that opens; every practice I follow, meditation, humming, vibration platform, trains this oscillation. The body becomes the tuning fork between worlds, and when the two modes synchronize, perception expands without losing the ground beneath it. The body’s core, the spine with its thirty-three vertebrae, stands as a structure that allows fluidity. I am using this image as the main concept of my upcoming book.Lately I keep meditating on the powerful once-in-a-lifetime Saturn and Neptune moving back through Pisces for a period of time, as definition meets dissolution, the fluid structure that can be adaptive yet deceiving and ungraspable. I was born with this configuration (Saturn in Pisces, Neptune tenth house, twelfth house ruled by Saturn), the trinity playing as a main theme in my chart, so perhaps I am wired to study the thin membrane between matter and spirit. Definition allows consciousness to perceive itself as dissolution allows it to return to wholeness. Reality is a rhythm between those two poles, because it is always breathing, and each individual has the capacity to perceive their own reality in relationship with their awareness. When I meditate, when I draw, when I read a chart or a waveform, I feel that rhythm. It is like moving through spheres or dimensions that tune in awareness, whether more physical or emotional, at times mental, creating harmonics in resonance or dissonance. Each has its own texture and frequency, yet they coexist in one continuum.III. Atlas the hidden connectionAnd now there is this object, 3I Atlas. No one really knows what it is. It was first spotted in July, traveling very close to our galaxy, and for months it has been moving near Mars, visible yet mysterious, heading toward Jupiter in Cancer next year. Some call it a comet, others wonder if it carries another kind of message. I sense that its presence is symbolic, that it mirrors our need to reconnect with the divine intelligence that holds the axis of being itself.In the body, Atlas is the first cervical vertebra, the point where the skull rests upon the spine, the place that allows the head to say yes. It is the hinge of consciousness, the bridge between heaven and earth. Perhaps this celestial Atlas reminds us of the same task, to hold awareness upright, to keep the mind aligned with the heart, to remember that divinity is not elsewhere but passing through us.When new planets or cosmic bodies are discovered, our level of consciousness expands. Each discovery corresponds with an awakening of collective awareness, a new faculty of perception made visible. So whatever 3I Atlas turns out to be, whether a comet, an interstellar traveler, or something yet unnamed, its arrival marks another opening, an opportunity to perceive reality through a wider field. It signals that consciousness itself is ready to grow.Sound is the thread that keeps them connected. Pythagoras spoke of the music of the spheres, and I often imagine he was describing what Monroe later mapped with Hemi Sync, the alignment of frequencies that lets perception travel. Brown turned that same principle into a protocol for inquiry. Faggin gives it theoretical grounding, saying consciousness itself is the field where all information resides. Their work shows the same structure from different angles. I move among them as one would between keys in music.Art, astrology, finance, meditation, they are all instruments. Each offers a different resonance through which awareness can study itself. The chart, the market, the mural, the sound, they are mirrors of the same intelligence. What I seek is coherence, to know reality as consciousness in form. Maybe this is what the next months will be about, learning to read the frequency of definition without losing the grace of dissolution, to stay grounded while moving through the invisible.The second coming of Christ or the Messiah is individuation. It is the possibility of integrating the self as an individual by living authentically.Shadow work is the process of synthesizing opposites, becoming either A or B, just allowing the third way to emerge: the Self.All collectivists have gotten this wrong.Take your space and follow your bliss. Be one with nature, your nature.Be courageous and embody your Logos. —-“Dear Mr. Grasse, The processes underlying history in the collective unconscious, at least for the Western civilization, have been worked out by Jung in his book Aion in that strange self-renewing process of the Self. Astrologically, we are moving from Pisces to Aquarius and in the process moving from Christ to the Lapis. That’s all I can shortly tell you. All my best wishes for your work. Sincerely, Marie-Louise von Franz.”This is where I begin the mapping, leaving mystery undefined, but to listen to how it arranges itself through me. That, to me, is the true cartography of awareness. IV.Practice + CoherenceThe mapping continues through sound. Sound is the simplest form of consciousness made visible, and the most faithful to its movement. When I hum, the vibration moves through my bones before it reaches the air. The body listens from within. There is a point when the sound no longer comes from me but seems to shape itself. It becomes a frequency that organizes my thoughts, my emotions, and even the space around me. This is what Bio-geometry teaches in its own language, each form holds a qualitative energy, each proportion a living vibration. Through practice, I have learned to sense how an angle or a curve changes the way energy circulates. The same awareness applies to tone, to pitch, to silence.When I measure wavelengths with the pendulum, I am seeking correspondence, as the act of measuring reveals how consciousness meets material. The tool becomes an extension of the body, and the body an extension of the field. This rhythm is also the structure of meditation, what Monroe called Focus, the gradual refinement of awareness until perception stabilizes in new dimensions. In my daily practice, the humming and the platform work follow the same principle. Vibration creates coherence; while the body vibrates coherently, the mind becomes transparent; when the mind is transparent, the field speaks clearly.Faggin would say that consciousness and information are not separate, that every act of perception is a quantum event where potential becomes experience. I understand this directly through sound. When a tone finds resonance in the room or as it echoes in my body, I can feel the space itself shifting into order. Everything aligns as if reality is momentarily aware of its own pattern. That is what I intend into my day, to move as if every thought, every word, every gesture were a vibration shaping the fabric of my experience.Numbers have always been another form of sound for me, representing vibrations we can see. The chart, the market, the harmonic series, all speak the same mathematical language. When I observe the ratios in a chart or the Fibonacci progression in a price movement, I see how growth follows rhythm, the ratio is the relationship between two points, each pattern is a wave of consciousness revealing itself through time. Sometimes I wonder if the ancients saw this as music rather than mathematics. Pythagoras spoke of intervals as divine relationships, I experience them as emotional geometries, ratios that carry feeling in relational values. The ratio of the octave feels like completion; the fifth feels like expansion; the minor third carries melancholy. Maybe this is why markets and constellations evoke emotion, they are harmonic mirrors of human movement/behavior.Brown’s methodology of remote viewing is another variation of this tuning, creating a system where attention moves through stages, from surface to depth, from image to concept. It is a disciplined way of entering the nonlocal; I recognize that discipline in my own creative process, tuning into a clarity of signal. When I prepare for a new artwork, I go through a similar sequence, research, silence, reception, translation. The stages differ in language; the essence remains. Remote viewing, sound work, art making, they all rely on the same act of alignment.Sometimes I think of consciousness as a living frequency scale, each state, waking, dreaming, meditating, creating, resonates at a different octave of the same field. When I am attuned, I can move between them without losing coherence, I call it navigation. The more I train the subtle senses, the more seamless the passage becomes, at moments, I sense awareness folding over itself, seeing itself from both sides, the perceiver and the perceived. It is a quiet recognition. It reveals naturally, as though it had always been so.All ancient traditions point to this unity, the Taoists describe it as the return to the source, the Buddhists call it the middle way, even in the language of physics, equilibrium is the state of least resistance, maximum coherence. It is the same principle that governs sound, geometry, and consciousness, to live in resonance is to live in awareness, every method, Monroe’s sound gateways, Brown’s remote protocols, Faggin’s quantum field, Bio-geometry’s subtle measurements, human design, evolutionary astrology, reading financial charts are ways of remembering that reality listens.I am beginning to see that what I call practice is not a means to reach higher states, but a way to stabilize this awareness in ordinary life, the art of living becomes the art of tuning. Attention becomes the instrument; and frequency is language, there is nothing supernatural in this. It is consciousness learning to perceive its own depth, like water recognizing the movement of its own waves.Everything I study keeps pointing toward the same truth, consciousness is not separate from what it observes. The chart, the sound, the line of a drawing, the price on a screen, the breath in meditation, each is a surface where awareness meets itself. Sometimes this meeting feels effortless, other times it is difficult, dense, as if the field resists coherence. Those moments are as important as the lucid ones; they reveal the texture of resistance, the thickness of material reality, the limits through which consciousness learns about form.I often think of architecture when I speak about consciousness, an architecture of perception that shapes experience. Definitions made of attention, rooms built of color and rhythm, corridors shaped by intention. When attention gathers, it forms structure; when it releases, space opens again, this is why I work well with constraints, budget, material, space, because each limit defines a chamber within awareness where something specific can happen in the quantum field. When Saturn/Capricorn draw the line; Neptune/Pisces dissolve it, creation emerges in their dialogue.In my work and in my readings I keep seeing how the field reflects our inner tone, when my energy is coherent, events unfold smoothly; when I am scattered, reality behaves like a broken mirror, it is acoustic. Reality resonates with the frequency it receives, that realization makes every practice, artistic, financial, or contemplative, a form of responsibility. What I project into the field returns as experience.Faggin writes that consciousness is primary, that information is born within it, this means that every perception carries creative power, when I think, the field shapes itself. When I hold awareness steady, the shape endures, when I act from clarity, the environment aligns around that clarity. This is the logos, repeated daily in how the smallest intention changes the quality of a conversation, a drawing, or a decision about money. The architecture of consciousness is built from micro acts of coherence.I have learned that awareness expands through relationship. Every collaboration, every client, every friend or student becomes a mirror. Each one carries a frequency that reveals something I am ready to understand, sometimes it is harmony, sometimes friction, but both belong to the same field. What I bring to these encounters is deep listening, through others, consciousness learns to see itself in motion.In the larger view, all the systems I practice, astrology, markets, art, Bio-geometry, remote viewing, physics, are languages describing how energy organizes itself. Each one uses its own symbols, yet they overlap perfectly, Evolutionary astrology maps the rhythm of time; markets trace collective emotion; art makes invisible structure visible; sound reveals the law of proportion; physics translates the same geometry into formula. When I work across these systems, I am learning to read the same sentence written in different alphabets.Sometimes I imagine that consciousness designed these mirrors so that we would never forget ourselves, each field, economic, emotional, artistic, is a reflection of the same order, expressed through different densities, we humans are not separate from it, we are its instruments.There is something else I need to make clear because the word spirituality has been so misused that it has lost meaning; as a reminder spirit is not separate from matter, the body does not live without it. When the soul leaves as we die, the flesh is still there but completely inanimate, when the soul enters, the same body moves, breathes, creates. So how can anyone say they are not spiritual? To exist is already to be animated by spirit. What changes is the focus of awareness, whether it rests mostly in emotion, in thought, or in the physical senses.To claim to be only spiritual and to reject matter is another illusion, that path leads to poverty of form, to disconnection from the very fabric that allows consciousness to express itself. Spirit needs matter to know itself, matter needs spirit to stay alive. Creativity belongs to their marriage. When awareness integrates both, life ceases to be a struggle for survival and becomes an act of evolution, a dimension where to thrive.Spirit, pneuma, is consciousness itself, eternal, unchanging, the field that is always present. Soul, psyche, belongs to spirit; it is the vessel that carries memory, identity, and experience through time. The ego is the sense through which we perceive this reality in relationship to conditioning; there is no life without ego. The scope is to integrate the soul’s journey. The soul holds the record of our journeys, the continuity of learning that persists beyond one lifetime, as the soul returns to source, it dissolves back into spirit, just as a wave returns to the ocean. Spirit is the awareness that witnesses all movements; soul is the pattern that travels through them; ego is the point of perception that allows spirit and soul to experience themselves through matter.Sat Chit Ananda, being, consciousness, bliss, is the living formula of that truth: Sat, the state of being that animates form; Chit, the awareness through which spirit perceives itself; Ananda, the bliss that arises when soul and spirit recognize their unity within matter.And as a continuation of what has happened over the last decade and a half, when spirituality went mainstream, we began to see how the idea itself became distorted. Many of those proclaiming that they are ascending or moving to another realm are still thinking with the same divided logic, as if awareness were a place, or as if a shuttle could carry them into some external heaven. Illumination is not a destination, it is a resonance. You do not travel to a dimension; you become that dimension by tuning to its frequency. When the field of perception widens, when separation in the mind dissolves, you realize you can inhabit many dimensions at once, the training is coherence, the practice is to stop dividing what is already whole.I sense that the next stage of my work will be about refining this instrument, making the translation clearer, freer of interference. It is about articulation, how clearly can consciousness speak through form, through me, through color, sound, decision, and action? Ahhh! that is the real experiment.Maybe this is the simple definition of awareness I have been looking for, the capacity to create coherence between worlds. To be awake is to allow the invisible to move through the visible without distortion, to build from that place is to participate in reality as its author, not its subject.V.The Acceleration: a new field of balancePluto turning direct in Aquarius for the first time since the 1770s marks a major astrological shift from introspection to action, prompting a collective move toward transformation and reinvention. Many projections from the collective may surface as individuals struggle to align with their design. Historically this energy correlates with upheaval and reconfiguration, suggesting an era shaped by technology, social awareness, and accelerated innovation. The emphasis is on building what is coherent. The time for dismantling what is obsolete is finished.Sat Chit Ananda, I am the awareness that knows itself.New Moon in Libra and Pluto Going DirectThe New Moon in Libra opens a new field of balance. It marks a turning point in how we relate, how we listen, and how we align with what feels true. It invites harmonic coherence, the quiet strength of knowing what belongs to us and what belongs to others. The tone of the energy has shifted altogether; it feels different in the body, sharper in the field, more transparent in the mind. There is propulsion. Everything that has been in revision since January begins to move forward, revealing how much we have released and how deeply we have transformed. It is cellular; the current itself is moving through us, preparing consciousness for a collective renewal of truth.In addition, Neptune slips back into Pisces this week, so the whole world will echo themes where people are freaking out. I would like to ask for a space of harmony within yourself.This New Moon belongs to that movement. It reflects how the Soul is learning to balance its emotional needs with its participation in the world. Libra asks for honesty with the self, harmony without compromise, and relationships that arise from inner coherence rather than projection. Jupiter in Cancer expands sensitivity to what we call home, while Pluto in Aquarius exposes what no longer holds integrity in the social field. Together they invite a more mature balance between belonging and freedom.The Finger of God between Uranus in Gemini and Saturn and Neptune in Pisces refines the nervous system and heightens intuitive awareness. Uranus awakens a new way of perceiving through frequency, while Saturn and Neptune teach discernment between structure and illusion. Their pressure opens mental clarity that is vibrational. The opposition from Chiron in Aries reminds us that courage and self-expression are the entry points to healing. The task is to speak from presence, not reaction, and to act from resonance, not defense.This lunation integrates all that has been distilled through the retrograde months. It balances what is inner and outer, emotional and social, intuitive and embodied. With Pluto direct in Aquarius, the Soul begins to participate in a new octave of awareness where authenticity replaces performance and coherence becomes the measure of truth.Between now and the next Pluto retrograde in May 2026, the field remains open for application. What has been gestating through the long retrograde now seeks expression through practice, dialogue, and embodied participation. Each step integrates what was released in the underworld phase and tests its stability in the world of relationship, creation, and structure. Take a good look at where Pluto is in your chart, because it is revealing the place where metamorphosis is slowly happening. This entire movement prepares the collective for a new rhythm of individual embodiment and collective resonance, where clarity becomes action and truth becomes design. This is a public episode. 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Welcome to “Equilibrium is a Process” — a new section for Bitcoin wavelength analysis.You’re receiving this introduction via email. Future weekly posts will live in a dedicated section (linked from main feed updates), so your inbox stays clear. 🌊📊 INTRODUCTORY POST → BITCOIN TECHNICAL ANALYSISMY WHY:Why I study Bitcoin through Ichimoku, Gann, Fibonacci, and pattern recognition:It’s all about vibration, movement, and frequencies within wavelengths.OBSERVE + CORRELATE:When I step back and observe objectively—without projecting my fears or insecurities—I start recognizing wavelengths everywhere. The same patterns in life cycles, in market movements, in price equilibrium, and momentum.Ichimoku shows me where equilibrium exists across multiple timeframes. The Kijun line is the gravity center that holds the wave, like a surfer’s stance on that edge of balance.Gann shows me when cycles complete and new phases begin, just like astrological aspects: new moons, full moons, and quarter moons. Or musical octaves.Fibonacci reveals the natural ratios where waves pause, turn, and resume—the same golden proportions found in nature, music, and art.Volume shows me how much conviction backs each move. The inflow and outflow. The breath behind the wave.It’s all about harmonics.COMMITTED TO TRUTH (through accountability)The same pattern recognition I developed reading astrological charts—tracking planetary cycles, aspects, and timing—translates directly to reading market structure.Both systems ask the same question: Where are we within the cycle?When you understand that markets breathe in waves (impulse, correction, impulse) and time moves in geometric divisions (45°, 90°, 180°), the chart becomes a visual frequency you can read.This is observing patterns that already exist.To some, this looks like chaos. I see rhythm.To some, random price moves. I see harmonic cycles completing.That’s why I’m committing significant time to master Bitcoin TA. Not as a trader—as a technical analyst. Because reading these patterns gives me tranquility. It’s meditation through observation.I’ll be sharing these wavelengths as I study them. If you feel compelled to follow along, welcome. If not, that’s fine too.📖 QUICK TERMINOLOGY GUIDEThink of these as the musical notes in the price wavelength:ICHIMOKU - The Equilibrium System ⚖️Tenkan (9-period average): The short pulse→ Fast-moving equilibrium line→ First harmonic of momentum→ “Where was balance 9 periods ago?”Kijun (26-period average): The gravity center ⭐→ Medium-term equilibrium = 0.5 Fibonacci (50%)→ The axis where price naturally returns→ Like a surfer’s center of gravity on the wave→ “Where is the center of this wavelength?”Chikou Span (26-period lag): Market memory→ Current price plotted 26 periods back→ Shows if current wave validates past structure→ “Does this move align with where we’ve been?”Cloud (Kumo): The future prediction zone* SSA (Leading Span A): Recent momentum projected forward* SSB (Leading Span B): Long-term structure projected forward→ Shows where support/resistance will be in 26 periods→ “Where will the wave meet resistance ahead?”EMA - Exponential Moving Averages (Directional Flow) 📈EMA 20: Recent momentum current→ Fast-reacting average weighted toward recent price→ Shows immediate directional flow→ “Where is the recent current pulling?”EMA 50: The prevailing tide→ Intermediate trend direction→ Often aligns with Kijun (26) for confluence→ “What direction is the tide moving?”EMA 100: The undertow→ Major trend structure→ Strong support/resistance in trends→ “Where is the deeper current?”EMA 200: The ocean current ⭐→ Primary trend definition→ Bull market: above EMA 200 | Bear market: below→ Most respected moving average globally→ “What is the dominant force?”How EMA differs from Ichimoku:→ Ichimoku = equilibrium blocks (where balance exists)→ EMA = smooth flow curves (where momentum is moving)→ Together = structure meets current→ When Kijun ≈ EMA 50 at same level = double confluence ⭐FIBONACCI - Natural Harmonic Ratios 🌀0.236 (23.6%): Shallow harmonic0.382 (38.2%): Strong harmonic (minor wave correction)0.5 (50%): Perfect balance = Kijun equilibrium ⭐0.618 (61.8%): Golden ratio (major wave correction)1.0 (100%): Full wavelength completion1.618 (161.8%): Golden extension (new wave projection)→ These are the natural pause points where waves breathe→ Found in nature, music, art, and markets→ “Where does the wave naturally rest?”BASIC GANN CYCLES - Time Geometry ⏰45-day cycle: Basic market rhythm unit90-day (45×2): Quarter cycle / Square turn180-day (45×4): Half cycle225-day (45×5): Venus cycle / 5th harmonic ⭐360-day (45×8): Full cycle / Complete octave→ Markets move in geometric time divisions→ Like musical octaves or lunar phases→ “When does the cycle complete and reverse?”VOLUME - The Conviction Behind the Wave 🔊>150% of average: High conviction (strong inflow/outflow)100%: Normal breathing Low conviction (weak breath)250%+: Capitulation/climax (wave peak or trough) ⭐→ Measures the energy behind price movement→ Like amplitude in a sound wave→ “How much force is behind this move?”WAVE PATTERNS - Market Breath 🌊Impulse: Strong directional move (exhale)Correction: Pause/retracement (inhale)Consolidation: Sideways equilibrium (holding breath)Exhaustion: Volume drops after extreme move (breath depletes)→ Markets breathe in rhythmic cycles→ Three waves forward, two waves back→ “Is the market breathing in or out?”CONFLUENCE - Where Frequencies Align ✨When multiple systems point to same level:→ Kijun (0.5 equilibrium) + Fibonacci 0.382 + Chikou memory→ = Maximum resonance = Strongest support/resistance→ Like musical harmony: multiple notes create one chord→ “Where do all the wavelengths meet?”HOW I USE THESE TOGETHER:* Ichimoku = Where is equilibrium NOW (present wave structure)* Chikou = Does this align with memory? (past validation)* Cloud = Where will we meet resistance? (future projection)* EMA = Which direction is momentum flowing? (current trend) ⭐* Fibonacci = Where do waves naturally pause? (harmonic ratios)* Gann = When do cycles complete? (time geometry)* Volume = How much conviction? (wave amplitude)When all seven align = Maximum confidence levelEXAMPLE FROM THIS WEEK 10/14-10/17:October 17, 2025:→ Price: 105.68k→ Weekly Tenkan: 105.7k (9-week equilibrium) ✅→ Fibonacci 0.382: 105.5k (natural harmonic) ✅→ Weekly Chikou: 105.8k (market memory) ✅→ Daily EMA 200: 105.9k (ocean current support) ✅→ Gann cycle: Oct 17 change window ✅→ Volume: 250%→250%→30% (exhaustion) ✅= All frequencies + flow directions aligned at one point= Maximum resonance support levelThis is how I read the rhythm.PERSONAL ASPIRATION:📊 A Seasoned Bitcoin Technical Analyst🔄 Synthesizing Ichimoku • Gann • Fibonacci • Volume • EMA🌊 Wavelength observer | Pattern reader⚠️ For entertainment & educational purposes | Not financial adviceIf this resonates, follow along. If not, may your own path be clear.The wavelengths are always there. You just have to learn to see them. 🌀GLOSSARY POSTFor those who want deeper understanding, here’s what I track:Weekly timeframe: Long-term wave (macro trend)Daily timeframe: Medium-term wave (swing structure)4H timeframe: Short-term wave (momentum shifts)Tenkan crosses Kijun: Momentum shift (new wave begins)Price crosses cloud: Trend change (wave direction reverses)Price crosses EMA 200: Major trend shift (current reverses) ⭐Kijun ≈ EMA 50 confluence: Structure + flow alignmentChikou validates: Memory confirms (past aligns with present)Fibonacci confluence: Natural pause point (harmonic rest)Gann time window: Cycle completion (phase change)Volume exhaustion: Wave depletes (reversal imminent)All of this is observable. None of it is predictive—it’s descriptive of patterns that already exist in the frequency.I’m simply reading the rhythm that’s already playing. 🎵 WEEK OF OCTOBER 14-17, 2025 SUMMARY:Bitcoin consolidated 110-113k with declining volume (50-75% MA) as predicted. Major breakdown occurred with 200% volume on October 16, followed by second 250% capitulation wave on October 17, reaching EXACTLY the predicted Weekly Tenkan support at 105.7k.Multi-system confluence created maximum-strength support:* Weekly Tenkan: 105.7k (9-week equilibrium/Ichimoku)* Fibonacci 0.382: 105.5k (natural harmonic retracement)* Weekly Chikou: 105.8k (52-period market memory validation)* Daily EMA 200: 105.9k (major trend current) ⭐* Gann time: Oct 17 change window* Volume: 250%→250%→30% exhaustion patternCurrent volume exhaustion (30% MA) suggests selling climax. Weekly Chikou Span at 105.8k (same level as price) is critical decision point for bounce or break.October 17 prediction validated as major change date.“If prices bounce off the Kijun, the break in the trend is merely a brief breather, or pullback, in the market before it resumes. On the other hand, if prices pass through the Kijun, the direction of the prevailing movement becomes obsolete.”— Karen Péloille, Trading with IchimokuFibonacci time marker October 20 (Monday) + Gann Venus cycle November 17 provide time-price symmetry for potential rally to 113-116k by November 10-17 (bull market continuation).Market context: Bitcoin remains in bull market structure (Weekly green cloud, price above major support). This week’s 105k test determines if the correction ends and bull continues (65-70% probability if support holds) or if deeper retracement to 95.6k unfolds. This is a correction within the existing uptrend—not a new bull market beginning.Original thesis: Timing perfect (Oct 17), direction corrected (down then up), target delayed one week but achievable.Support MUST hold above 105k (Weekly Tenkan + EMA 200) or break to 95.6k (Weekly SSB).Current probability: 65-70% bounce begins Monday-Tuesday.have a great week This is a public episode. 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Can influence create impact? Or can inspiration be the way?This past weekend, I went to the movies. It had been a while. I stopped going to movies + watching Netflix, HBO or the likes after 2020, realizing that movies + series were an incredible way to program the mind of the people. Instead, I’ve used that extra time to learn new skills, new ways of thinking, and have become more productive in different ways. But I’m not condemning if you are hooked to your Screen or you still go to the movies, You do you, but I’ll do me.Anyway, it was a movie I wanted to watch for various reasons. It is a documentary and I noticed it through the algorithm, where I got caught up by the story of this kid that, at 18 years old, embedded himself next to Kanye, or Ye West, for six years. He was just a trailing shadow during the time where Ye was most canceled, scandalous, while he was running for president, while he met Donald Trump. He was in this very erratic behavior…. I think the filming stopped in 2024. Let’s stop for a bit and for those who don’t know who Kanye West, or Ye is, he’s one of the most influential artists and producers of the 21st century, a visionary who reshaped music, fashion, and culture with equal force. His genius and controversy often coexist, making him a mirror of the times he inhabits.The filmmaker is Nico Ballesteros and the film is titled In Whose Name? released last September in cinemas.This film speaks to me in many layers. It shows how culture shapes politics and how indoctrination operates as a political weapon. Culture reflects collective behavior, whether conscious or unconscious, revealing how our intentions or their absence shape the systems we live within.There’s a striking scene where Candace Owens and a very young, silent Charlie Kirk listen to Kanye. It’s almost a pity not to hear his voice, to know what he might have said then. Today, Owens stands as a disruptive figure in the cultural landscape. Around 2017, she joined Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA as Communications Director, and together they became central voices in shaping a generation’s political narrative. The 2010s through 2020 were marked by this kind of influence—where media personalities and online figures became the new architects of belief. Influencers became the voice of culture, programming collective perception as effectively as any institution before them.So in this scene, Candace tells Kanye directly:“Culture will always be upstream from politics. Whoever can control culture can control politics… You wearing a MAGA hat? It broke the internet.”Ye responds:“I have to show an example of a non-perfect Black celeb that still wins.”Owens then calls such a position “a glorified slave.”That scene alone is worth a pause: culture becoming politics, influencers shaping collective discourse, the blurring of lines between artistry, politics, and spectacle.The film is very Neptunian in a way: beautifully crafted, almost oneiric. Nico Ballesteros, the director’s gifted eye and craft are very mature despite his age and experience, he endows the story with extremely powerful visuals, the way he merges into the environment with no boundaries is quite unique (I would love to see his chart and find the Neptune, Pisces quality unfolding). He calls himself empathic; he doesn’t want to judge or take sides, he just puts it out there in a way that you, the viewer, are going to experience it and then make a judgment, or come out like me connecting many dots…. I don’t have an answer, it left me in a contemplative state where I can look back and anchor the last 15 years in archetypal symbology to make sense and pivot my mind into a possibility to reach a synthesis that will light my way coming February 2026. Remember I am always looking for clues, in numbers, codes, harmonics. Part 1: In Whose Name — The Artist and the FogThrough this spectacular experience (the soundtrack is gorgeous) we see the struggle of the psyche of an artist who has gone from the peak of his career, to getting so close to the sun that he burned his wings and lost almost everything. The question that stays is: was he crazy? Did he have or has a mental health problem? Or was he a very smart man? Because he started a discourse that is still active right now, especially after the assassination of Charlie Kirk a few weeks ago and with all the conspiracy theories going around, it is not very difficult to fall into that lane.There’s a line he says in the film that he is here to destroy all the labels. Do you think he is talking about Adidas, Gap, CAA and Balenciaga? No. He is talking about how we define ourselves in society; with pronouns, with race, with all this Sh*t. Of course there was controversy around the White Lives Matter shirts (October 2022), which is part of that wider context, a reflection of how expression, outrage, and symbolism collide in the cultural arena he constantly challenges.It is a very complex film. because as Nico Ballesteros states, he was focused on showing Ye’s process, and as an artist myself, this can look and be experienced very chaotic, I am not interested in either defending Ye’s motives, nor his breakdown or his choice of words…There’s a scene with one of the most important architects of all time, Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron. That scene is striking, as Ye treats the team very much like a child lost in his own creativity, desperate to be seen, but unable to see it. The process of an artist, seen from the outside, can seem a little all over the place because Pisces carries no rules and at times no structure. Ballesteros found in KanYe a companion for his own creative process, and me watching it from the outside, I could appreciate that dynamic as a creator that cherishes processes as opportunities to evolve.There’s another scene: really beautiful; where he made a whole film at the Roden Crater of James Turrell, he has this genius of understanding material forms, and how he wants things to be shaped and manifested, a very Taurus, Venusian trait. For those who don’t know James Turrell, he’s one of my favorite artists. His art is only light, and your perception of it completes the work. He bought this crater years ago; while flying his airplane he spotted it, bought it, and has spent decades shaping it into a place where sublime experience with light can transform life into a spiritual encounter. I have experienced his work numerous times in New York, Long Island City, at the Villa Panza di Biumo in Varese, and in Los Angeles. He belongs to the generation of artists called light artists; he just works with light, perception, pure beauty. I was always looking forward to going to the crater. I think I will have to make that pilgrimage sooner rather than later.Turrell’s devotion to light reminds me that illumination is revealed through patience. His work is an act of listening to light, of allowing perception itself to become form. In many ways, his life mirrors the spiritual task of our times: to sculpt awareness out of stillness, to let light teach us how to see.In his chart, KanYe has Mars, Venus, and Chiron together in Taurus in the tenth house. Beauty is central for him; it absorbs him. That cluster opposes Uranus in Scorpio on the cusp of the fourth and fifth houses and squares Saturn in Leo in the first. It is a chart of brilliance and pain, of vision and fracture.From an evolutionary view, this Taurus grouping in the tenth speaks to the vulnerability of not being seen or valued for one’s true work, the wound of seeking recognition through public contribution. Uranus near the fifth adds a raw, unpredictable talent that resists containment, while Saturn in the first demands that he ground his individuality through discipline and self-definition. His life has been the ongoing search to balance those forces, to merge freedom and structure into one current of creation.The Sun and Moon square between the twelfth and ninth houses reveals the tension between his vast inner world and his longing to give it meaning. The Sun and Jupiter in the twelfth expand his imagination and spiritual vision, while the Moon in Pisces in the ninth seeks transcendence through belief and inspiration. The mind wants expansion; the soul wants peace. Out of that friction comes both his conflict and his genius.His upcoming Chiron return can open a cycle of healing, helping him release the need to prove and create from affirmation instead of struggle. When that old wound of not being seen begins to turn into self-recognition, his creativity will no longer need to shout; it will speak with its own quiet strength. The loss of his mother after his 2002 car accident marked the deepest layer of that wound, and that crash appears to have opened him to inner archetypes and visions he had not expressed before. That experience, together with his later rejection of medication and his demand for freedom at any cost, has been both the source of his pain and the seed of his awakening. What stands out is his absolute commitment to freedom, regardless of the consequences he faces. Some even suggest that his apparent breakdown may have been a deliberate act of liberation from his contracts—a performance of madness that doubled as genius. It is here that the question of madness or vision arises: whether he is fragmented or truly able to tap into something more divine.Astrology allows me to observe without taking sides, without assuming a position. I’m not aligning myself with rhetoric or excusing behavior. What I see is a man in pain. That is what the documentary showed me: the humane part of him.I think it’s fascinating to understand Neptune in Pisces — how the line between reality and projection blurs, how the media and hypnotic suggestion via a heavily medicated population shape collective perception.I’m speaking about a soul that has had the ability to dive deep into his own creativity, his genius, to put out things that are wonderful and unique. He has received validation from the crowd, built immense wealth, and shaped culture itself for a time, yet beneath that success there remains the fragility of not feeling truly seen or valued by his peers. His connection to his truth still feels more important than all the billions or external acceptance, and perhaps that very vulnerability has been the drive behind his genius.Ye’s story mirrors our collective Neptune in Pisces experience, when inspiration, delusion, fame, and faith all blend into one field of projection. On October 17th Neptune goes back to Pisces for ninety days, and we will feel the last bit of this illusion from the 2010s and early 2020s. One decade and a half, my friends. This has been a long road from schizophrenia to liberation, and it is up to each of us to find our own genius, to have the courage to move through creativity in a way that speaks our individual truth.And perhaps this is what the film left me with: that truth itself is not absolute; it is the living presence of each individual perspective. Which brings me to Here for the Truth.We are seeing the psychological cost of the influencer age, the confusion between visibility and value, between projection and presence; what once felt like connection became a hall of mirrors.Part 2: Here for the Truth — Neptune, Influencers, and the End of the Fog“For over two thousand years, human life was seen as oriented toward goodness, beauty, and truth. During my lifetime, I have seen each repudiated and reviled — beauty dismissed as irrelevant, and truth reduced to rhetoric of power.” — Iain McGilchristHe also reminds us that truth is an encounter. Not absolute, not infinitely relative; it is relational. Let the Light Come Into the World but Not Through MeNeptune has been in Pisces for fourteen years, dissolving boundaries of ego, reality, and collective psyche. Much of the confusion we see in humanity now carries this signature. It is as if we have had to go back into forgetting, dissolving, and eliminating what we once thought of as self so that we can restart from a different principle. This long cycle is coming to its end, a last passage through the fog before it moves on for good in February 2026. It has been one and a half decades of forgetting and remembering, of losing and recovering vision.We are seeing the psychological cost of the influencer age; the confusion between visibility and value, between projection and presence. What was once a medium of connection became a mirage.Neptune correlates to how consciousness itself is experienced. Its shadow is blind faith and delusion when unconscious; its gift is the dissolving of false thought forms, the reminder that all of life is conscious. It holds a paradox: Neptune dissolves the self-sense into the infinite field, creating both disorientation and the opening for spiritualization when integrated consciously. It carries the longing for fusion, imagination, and transcendence, but also the danger of confusion, sacrifice, or projection when that longing is not made conscious; the temptation of getting high for the sake of it.When I speak of the collective psyche’s confusion over these years, I am describing: the dissolving of boundaries, the fog, and the invitation to reset on new principles. Neptune, Pisces, and the twelfth house all rule the field of imagination and psychic receptivity — a field that can connect us to timeless truth or leave us vulnerable to hypnotic suggestion. It is the field of consciousness where boundaries are lost, where mesmerization and susceptibility to collective beliefs are strongest. The contrast with Saturn is clear: Saturn defines, Neptune absorbs. Saturn demands logic and form; Neptune invites empathy and surrender. If Uranus shocks the system awake, Neptune seduces and dissolves it into dream.Edward Bernays once wrote, “To convince large groups of people, propagandists target their emotions and instinctive reactions. Trying to persuade someone through logic and reasoning is too slow. Emotional appeals trigger a fast automatic response. Emotional shortcuts replace the need for any effort to think.” He also said, “To sway the public, it is necessary to appeal to the unconscious mind, the emotions, and the instincts of the people, rather than their reason and logic.” Do you know who Bernays was? he invented public relationships, and wrote a book called Propaganda…What Bernays named as propaganda is exactly what the Neptunian fog amplifies: emotional contagion, spiritual confusion, the rise of false prophets, the worship of celebrity, the influencer as oracle. During this cycle, technology became the new priesthood, social media the new church. The influencer age is already fading; we are at its funeral, and the illusion will become clearer past the summer of 2026.Every Neptune in Pisces era has carried similar waves of mesmerization and revelation. In 1847–1862 came the rise of Spiritualism, séances, and utopian communities. In 1521–1535, the Protestant Reformation split the Church, birthing new prophets and schisms. In 1356–1370, after the Black Death, apocalyptic cults and visions of redemption filled Europe. And even earlier, during the Crusades, the same idealism fused heaven and war. Each passage brought both vision and delusion, both the hunger for transcendence and the distortion of it. These are are structural shifts in how the collective psyche remembers the divine.In our own time, the longing to reconnect with the higher self manifests in every form: through ceremony, fasting, micro-dosing, ayahuasca, through addictions and obsessions, through new digital cults of belonging. People seek transcendence in every possible mirror. I do my own; you do your own. The landscape is complex but full of possibility. For me, these are not end-of-times; they are beginnings of others.In the meantime, I leave you with a question: which parts of your life have been a dream and which ones have been a nightmare? Where do you think you stand right now? Are you already in the new times or are you still believing in the end of times? Where in the threshold do you find yourself; grounded, lifted, or swayed by the current?The Sabian symbol for this Full Moon on October 6 and 7, 2025 at fifteen degrees of Aries is “An Indian weaving a ceremonial blanket.” It speaks of sanctifying life through the weaving of polarities, the act of embodying cosmic consciousness in a fabric that holds both individuality and devotion. It illuminates the path of becoming a unique being of light, the creative fulfillment of our desire to differentiate and express ourselves entirely. To weave is to embody presence; individuation is not separation for its own sake, it is the conscious integration of our singular light into the fabric of existence.Let us tap into this Aries Full Moon and contemplate what we are leaving behind.I am grateful for my life and for those who read my words each week. These times make sense for all the trials and tribulations my soul has journeyed through with courage. I am alive, and I am optimist.The song is “Runaway” from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, released October 4, 2010; exactly fifteen years ago today, almost the entire span of Neptune in Pisces. A journey from delusion to vision, from loss to illumination.Last but not least, Gregg Braden recently spoke with Joe Rogan, and their conversation is fascinating. He brought up the Gospel of Thomas, one of the earliest records of Jesus’ sayings; a text that feels profoundly relevant to these times of confusion and revelation.Logion 3:“If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you.If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you.Rather, the kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you.When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father.But if you do not know yourselves, then you are impoverished.”This passage reminds me that truth is not given by authority outside of ourselves; it is recognized through self-knowledge, through inner illumination. That is the real kingdom: the awareness that what we seek has always been within and around us.Enjoy your full moon. This is a public episode. 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PerceptionTaking a clear stance at the tower observation point, I take both the time and the space to observe. And while at it, only little things can be seen moving, because everything acquires a different perspective.Time seems to stall and space seems to expand. It is only perception.While everything outside on the horizon is moving slowly, everything inside is translating more about where I am in my life.Once I enter this spectrum, I experience subtle things. Both infrared and ultraviolet rays can be sensed, movements only a camera will show you.Looking at rhythms, repetitions, behavior, and how people react, the tower’s point of view is the best place to stand.Sat, my Daoist sifu used to ask back in New York, if you see a bunch of rats running downtown, where do you go? Half of the class was saying uptown, and he would say, -wrong, you have to follow the rats. So it’s about getting back to instinct, getting back to quietude, so I can actually perceive things with my senses, not my mind. The mind is very important to use only what is needed, using logic, but everything else that is going to allow me to sustain my life has to come from internal relationships.We are also beginning the annual journey of the Sun through the splenic gates in Human Design, a six-week passage that activates our instinct, our fears, and our intuition. This is the cycle where the body teaches us how to trust our senses to understand where we are. It begins with Gate 18, the drive to correct and improve, the place where sight knows when something is off. It then moves to Gate 48, the well of solutions, where the fear of inadequacy lives, again through sight discerning whether there is enough depth. Gate 57 carries the fear of the future, yet here intuition sharpens as clear hearing. Gate 32 holds the fear of failure, preserving what endures through instinct. Gate 50 brings the fear of responsibility, shaping the values that sustain community. Gate 28 touches the fear of life being meaningless, awakening the struggle for purpose. Finally, Gate 44 holds the fear of the past repeating, an instinct that calls on memory and recognition. This is the terrain the Sun is moving through right now, week by week drawing us deeper into the spleen, where instinct becomes intuition and fear reveals itself as awareness.So if you don’t take pharma, and you did not get the boosters, probably your brain is working different. Also if you eat no sugar, and you don’t take any intoxicants or stimulators, you are so connected to the core of your energy. And still with all of that, you have to be mindful that what you’re seeing most of the time are reactions and not responses. And this subtlety you cannot detect if you’re under any influence, whether it’s too much information from the outside, whether it’s too much pollution from others.So having the environment clean, living healthy, and a wholesome relationship to your ecology, to your food, to your body. I’m saying this because once Neptune dips back to Pisces for a few months, the s**t show is going to get louder. The Truman Show is going to be even more evident, and it’s going to trample so many fears about what had just happened.oh I thought we were out of this, but we’re not!We’re in the place where the unfolding is yet to be decided. I knew that as the main character in my de-illusion is about deciding how all is going to show up.Mars is still in Scorpio, so maybe fear will lead your way, but fear has a purpose to support you when you’re doing shadow work.I personally cannot fall into any more psyops. I’m taking the distance, and I have been using creativity in the last few weeks to generate wonderful things for my future, just focusing on little things of how I want to create a better environment in my life, in my vessel, the home of my spirit.Value meets releaseWe are approaching the first quarter square lunation of September 29. The Moon in Capricorn falls exactly on my Ceres and South Node in the 11th house while the Sun is in my 8th house in Libra. This is a moment of karmic harvest: the Moon pressing on the point of nourishment and release in the collective field (Ceres and South Node), the Sun illuminating shared resources, hidden bonds, and deeper truths in the 8th. Pallas Athena exactly on my Ascendant at 6 degrees Aquarius sharpens my perception and strategy, helping me see the pattern and the tactics beneath appearances. Venus conjunct my Pluto in the 8th house deepens the theme of value and transformation, bringing relational and creative energies down into the underworld for regeneration.By Friday, October 3, the Moon will be in Aquarius trine Mercury in Libra, opposing Chiron in Aries, and quincunx Saturn retrograde. Venus, moving through Virgo, will be conjunct the South Node. This brings another layer: the Moon linking air to air with Mercury, insight to dialogue, while also confronting the wound of voice and assertion through the opposition to Chiron. The quincunx to Saturn retrograde adds the demand for adjustment and responsibility, and Venus with the South Node calls up relational memory, patterns of value from the past that are ready to be seen and released.The interesting part is that we’re inside the Truman Show.Conspiracy theories have been proven to be real. And the more you tap into them, the more you realize that there is something that’s holding all of this lie together. Partially, if not ALL of it, is the FIAT monetary system that is holding all this degeneration, control and centralization and the incredible darkness that comes from taking part in it, I don’t know, decades, years of destruction towards the human spirit.Now, I take a stance. For me, it’s not important anymore if I can prove that this is a theory that is conspirational and beyond that. For me, it’s like how much of this is a lie inside of myself. How much of it I’m not seeing the truth. Where am I not accepting my reality. How can I make my reality full of clarity. So for that, I’ve got to be very honest and I have to look at myself very, very, very thorough. That’s what I’m doing these days.I am not fixated on who killed who. neither if the widow is demonic or not, could not careless of who’s running the show anymore. I don’t care if it’s a country or the whole planet or blue/green aliens from another dimension. I am unplugging from the mental loop of PSYOPs. It is not that I don’t really care, it is that I’d prefer to invest my time in something constructive. I want to be PRODUCTIVE, inspirational, creative and carry a lot of discernment, information? yes? obsession? no. Education? Bring it on!I had to get some distance because this can drive anybody crazy. Indoctrination has already driven a large part of the world completely insane. So I just want to make sure that I’m not indoctrinating myself in conspiracy theories.What I felt the last few weeks is real. The loss of life, the loss of the power to keep on living in a world that perhaps one day stops being so violent. The danger of losing property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of movement. That is true for me as it is to find a balance within myself so I keep myself sane and creative, generating dynamic propositions that can lead to more education.The TOWER perspective:As I stand back to observe and I refuse to fall for quick answers. I question all motives, that’s a very objective Uranian characteristic of being in my 7th house, especially in Virgo, because I like to discern and refine what it is that I’m observing. Uranus is stripping away the surface narrative to reveal the deeper pattern, and being relational, the quality comes alive in anything that I’m related to as a dialogue. Whether I’m looking at the news, I’m looking at behavior in general, or even financial charts, I’m always looking for pattern recognition to see how this behavior unfolds.When I get in relationships, I don’t just meet a person or a friend or a situation or a thing.What is really in the meeting is the Promethean moment. It’s an encounter that stimulates and accelerates my own individuation. So I look for them just to see where this jolt and bolt of electricity is going to give me some light. These are my Promethean moments.Uranus is the spark, the lightning that breaks the spell. Jeffrey Wolf Green calls it the function of liberation from the known: when the shock comes, the conditioning cracks, and the Soul has a chance to individuate. Mark Jones says that what surfaces in these shocks are residues of trauma carried in the subtle body; but through recognition, through consciousness, the same trauma becomes a door to freedom. Liz Greene reminds us that Uranus is Prometheus, stealing fire: enlightenment is never quiet, it burns, it wounds, it awakens, and it asks for an offering.When Uranus provokes, what falls away is the false order, the binding spell of consensus. What opens is pattern recognition: you see through, you pierce the veil, you break the conditioning. But Jung warns of the other side: the freedom can turn uprooted, severed from instinct, inflated into hybris. He describes it as Promethean freedom without the gods, a soaring above the earth that risks disintegration. This is where Uranus can be Frankenstein —> a vision ahead of its time, but turned monstrous if it forgets the body, the instinct, the ground, overstepping with arrogance and creating the conditions for its own downfall.And then there is Uranian fundamentalism: when the lightning flash hardens into ideology, when awakening becomes a dogma. The danger is to mistake the shock itself as the truth, rather than as the opening to truth. Uranus catalyzes, but the work is to integrate, to bring the fire down, to live it, not to worship the strike.I have always felt a deep kinship with Jung’s work. Very early on I learned what individuation and shadow work meant, and when I discovered synchronicity it was like a tuning fork inside me, not coincidence but two events resonating through insight. It all made sense. So it never surprised me to find that he had written the prologue to the I Ching, a text I had been studying, or that he was doing astrological readings for patients. His work is familiar to me, almost cellular.And when I look at his chart, I see why. Like me, he was Aquarius rising. We both have Saturn in the first house opposing Uranus in the seventh, this event happens every 15 years, with Uranus ruling from the seventh house and Saturn ruling from the first. His Saturn was in Aquarius, mine is in Pisces, but both are in the same houses: the same dynamic of polarity between Uranus and Saturn, the need to balance freedom with form, lightning with structure. Jung’s Neptune was at the same degree as my Jupiter in Taurus. His Neptune squared his Sun and Ascendant, and for me that same point squares my Ascendant. Our tension between vision and embodiment is shared across lifetimesAs consciousness becomes more independent, it risks pushing instinct into the background, gaining Promethean freedom while losing its root in primordial images. That freedom can lift us, but it also carries the danger of being untethered, without ground. I know that edge intimately, having been born with Saturn in opposition to Uranus, with Pluto and Uranus in a balsamic relationship. Now those same planets form sextiles and trines in the sky, urging me to live the higher potential of that tension, to create rather than fracture.Uranus is not individuality in the solar sense but a collective instigator. Its visions come whole, like lightning, without the slow testing of lived experience, without the embodied individual logos. This is the Frankenstein side of Uranus: the vision of liberation that forgets the body it animates. I know this edge well, because my Uranus in Virgo in the 7th is relational. Partnerships are never just partnerships for me: they are Promethean encounters, jolts of electricity that catalyze my individuation.Venus gestation journey in 2025Venus has been tracing this story all year. On January 10th, she conjoined Saturn at 17 degrees of Pisces, exactly on my Chiron, seeding a structure of value rooted in responsibility and healing. After the retrograde cycle through Aries and back into Pisces in the spring, the trajectory became clear: nine months later, Venus meets the South Node in my 8th house, squaring my natal Venus in the 5th. That conjunction at 17° Pisces now meets its mirror point, as Venus with the South Node at 18° Virgo stands in exact opposition; a 180° arc revealing that what was seeded then is now ready for release.It feels like a gestation cycle, carrying the seed through its stages and now arriving at a birth point. This is both a release and a hinge for me, a karmic letting go of unconscious patterns of merging, and at the same time the square presses an interval, a pivot point that spins the spiral into another dimension. It shows me how far my value has evolved since January: no longer leaking power through unconscious sharing, but recognizing that worth is sourced within and carried into how I love, create, and bring beauty into form. What began as a story of negotiation has emerged as a surrender to the architecture of my value, my resources, and my capacity to trust myself first, even in the face of the danger of being once more ostracized.What I have come to realize this year, with Saturn meeting Chiron in Pisces, is that value itself supports every relationship with any need. Money becomes a technology by which I can extend my life with more tranquility by trusting myself and the resources that I am able to bring forth creatively. This is the deeper teaching of Pisces ruling my second house: trust that I have the resources, the talent, not only to create and sustain life, but also to manage, to preserve, and to multiply them. This was my missing structure before, and Saturn’s conjunction with Chiron seeded it into form. And now, nine months later, this is what Venus on my Pluto brings, the depth in understanding the profound transformation I’ve been living. Wow, Monika, congratulations.The pot of gold over the rainbow” at 4° Taurus The Sabian symbol for the degree of Taurus that holds Jung’s Neptune and my Jupiter speaks of a rainbow’s pot of gold. His vision, his illusion, and my seeking wisdom share that same frequency: the promise of illumination after storm, the treasure that appears when opposites reconcile. That image continues to guide me: to hold Uranian fire with enough Saturnian vessel, to walk individuation without losing the body, to be both lightning and earth.In synastry, the meeting of my Jupiter with his Neptune at this degree carries a quality of shared vision, a blending of my expansion with his imagination, my wisdom with his mysticism. It feels like an attunement to the same frequency of meaning and transcendence, as if my growth naturally entered the field of his vision. This is why I have always felt an immediate kinship with his work: his Neptune gave form to the dream I was already carrying, and my Jupiter amplifies the resonance of his vision into a lived quest for understanding. And because this meeting falls in both our 3rd houses, it also speaks of language, voice, and communication; of how meaning itself is shaped and exchanged, how insight becomes dialogue, and how resonance takes form in words.Right now the degree where Jung’s Neptune and my Jupiter meet in Taurus is being lit up. Transiting Pluto in Aquarius is making an exact square to it, and I feel the expansion and possibility of that contact like a charge in my whole field. It is as if the same point of vision and wisdom that we share is being given depth and power, inviting me to step fully into my individuation process. This time, though, my knowledge is grounded. It is embodied.In June 2023, when the North Node met Jupiter at this same degree; also my fifth Jupiter return, the invitation became explicit: be completely transparent about my process of individuation, live my creative selfhood, let the fire show.Watching from the tower, rooted and alive, carrying the lightning down to earth, the view is so beautiful.Have you noticed Venus’ journey this year, from January’s conjunction with Saturn? Over these nine months of gestation, what structures have you created, and what are you discerning now as it culminates and touches the South Node at the opposite side? In terms of value in your life, what patterns are ready to be released so that new dimensions can open?📌 Recommended ListeningTimothy Allen from the Free Cities Foundation speaks with my dear friend, the independent journalist and podcast host Efrat Fenigson in a wide-ranging conversation on censorship, privacy, and resilience in an increasingly chaotic world. Usually she’s on the other side of the microphone. Efrat carries a distinctly Promethean current: her voice exposes the dangers of collective programming while illuminating alternative paths of value and freedom for the community. Themes they weave include censorship, Bitcoin, CBDCs, spirituality, microdosing, and life as a digital nomad. Efrat speaks candidly about Israel, propaganda, and her choice to leave. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Who was the empirical one? Was it Aristotle or Plato? Plato was ontological and Aristotle was empirical, correct? Plato is defining how things are constructed and Aristotle is saying hey we have to practice. …And then comes Socrates and he starts questioning everything and creates dialogue…Plato points to the realm of Forms, εἶδος (eidos) or ἰδέα (idea): eternal structures, kinds, and patterns that shape how things are. Aristotle looks at what you can observe, classify, and practice in the world, grounding knowledge in experience. Socrates precedes both in method. He asks questions, he unsettles certainty, he insists on dialogue as the way to approach truth. His practice of questioning gave birth to Plato’s philosophy, and from Plato’s teaching, Aristotle’s empirical investigations followed.-|-Isn’t it beautiful to go back to source, to go back to the classics and understand our way of thinking? We have lost that capacity because we are not questioning how things are made. We are not questioning how forms and structures are conformed. And we are not really using the power of observation and correlation to classify them because we are not using our own experience to know. And worst of all, we are not using questioning as a practice to learn more about how this ontology and this empiricism can create a space of curiosity and unfoldment that will lead to a proper dialogue where new things will emerge.And this is where dialogue is born. Dialogue is interested in listening to many views, in understanding many perspectives. So then, the questioner, the one who questions, will have something new that is generated. So yeah, what are you questioning these days? What is in your empirical mind?-|-So what is Ontology?Plato pointed to Forms. It is about being. It is about how things are constructed, how they exist, what makes them endure.* So what is Empiricism?Empiricism is about experience. It is about what we can observe, what we can classify, what we can test in practice. Aristotle grounded philosophy in what we can see and know through the senses.**And what about Socratic discourse?Socratic discourse is about questioning. It is dialogue. It is unsettling certainty. Socrates was not giving answers, he was creating the conditions for discovery, for something new to emerge in conversation.So how can Society practice Ontology?By asking what is the essence of things before rushing to use them. For example, in technology, before creating another app, we could ask what is its being, what does it add to human life, what is the structure it creates.So how can society practice Empiricism?By grounding decisions in lived experience, not just in abstractions. For example, in education, instead of only teaching theories, students could observe, classify, and test ideas in practice, so knowledge comes from experience, not from memorizing.So how can society practice Socratic discourse?By making dialogue central. For example, in politics, instead of shouting positions, we could create forums where citizens question each other, not to win, but to uncover. In family, it could be as simple as sitting at the table and asking each other questions without rushing to judgment, letting curiosity guide the exchange. In work, it could be teams asking why things are done a certain way and opening space for better solutions instead of just repeating patterns. In art, it could be dialogue between artist and audience, where the work itself becomes a question that invites many perspectives.Socratic discourse means the question is as important as the answer, and new understanding comes from the exchange itself.(So what is eloquence? From Latin eloquentia, from ex- meaning out, and loqui meaning to speak. It is speech that flows out, clear and persuasive, born from knowledge and presence.)Eloquence moves a point across a dialogue without violence. Such as Cicero said, eloquence is wisdom joined to speech. Yes, yes, yes.I feel that if you carry yourself with eloquence, you can express a perspective without having to violently insult another person just because your views are different. Now, in order to be eloquent, you need to understand that you have to do a little bit more of reading, and also you have to know that which you are talking about is something that you know, that you have experienced yourself, not just repeating, like a parrot, what other people are saying. (it helps to write about it, to practice your newfound knowledge)In order to be eloquent, you have to be educated and not schooled. If you are schooled you are just repeating something you do not know. When you are educated you are practicing it, you are testing it, you are experiencing it, so you become empirical about it.So how do we apply this to today? In small steps, I will say. Bringing ontology and empiricism and Socratic discourse back into our daily life. Start with oneself. Ask yourself, -why am I doing this? -How am I responding to this situation? -Am I doing it from a place of truth? -Am I just willing to establish my territory? -Do I have experience enough, other than curiosity, to get into the terrain and see for myself the meaning of things? -Am I curious enough to go into the ontology of how things are constructed? When one practices in small bits, whether at home, in creation, in family, and then in small communities, I see a window of hope emerging as dialogue can be a living practice.But to see the light, we must also see what blocks it. Society’s shadow.*The term ontology was coined much later, in the seventeenth century, from the Greek ontos (being) and logos (account). Plato himself did not use the word, but his inquiry into being and Forms is what the term later came to describe.** The term empiricism also came later, from the Greek empeiria (experience). Aristotle himself did not use the label, but his focus on observation and the senses laid its foundation.Society’s ShadowHow to Project Our Own Individuation to Get Out of ItSociety’s shadow. How can you see it? How can you reveal it? It is your own shadow projected onto society, and then you are in a dark room full of mirrors with very little light, living in this incredible labyrinth of confusion, of projections, of not understanding, because you are so fascinated with the idea to hold on to ideologies. If you start looking at them and how you got indoctrinated and how you got schooled into them, that shatters the whole reality. The mirrors break, and then you are left inside of this platform that has no boundaries, no end, no definition, and then you ask yourself: Who am I? I am the reflection of all my relationships.This is Libra time, and it is a beautiful time right now to slow down and take time to understand your relational values. Once you know your needs, you have leverage, and now you must see how you relate to your needs in relationship to other situations, people, and things. Look at your chart to find out where Libra is ruling, where your Venus is, and what are the aspects that are in dissonance or in resonance that will help you get to the next level. There are levels of understanding. They are not hierarchical; they are more like tuning the frequency of understanding. You are either tuned or completely not tuned, and therefore everything that is outside is clashing with your inside, or vice versa.The calling for these times is to be courageous. Be courageous enough to ask: what are the possibilities? What are the possibilities that are coming to you. Where are you going to redefine this emergency? We have a first quarter square with the Moon in Capricorn. Capricorn is our outer authority, and the Moon is our inner authority. Can you compensate your emotional body with the emotional body of society and see where you are not really seeing truth?The chart is interesting. Mars squared Pluto on September 25, 2025; it is a third-quarter square. Mars in Scorpio is very intense; he wants to find out and go deep, no stone left unturned. Last time these two combative, powerful, transformative planets met was at 0°46’ Aquarius on February 14, 2024. Venus joined a few days later, while the North Node was together with Chiron in Aries. The first-quarter square followed on June 10, 2024, when Mars reached 1° Taurus. Then came a series of three oppositions to Pluto, from December through April, moving through Cancer and Leo while Mars was in its biennial retrograde journey. Now, at the three-quarter juncture, can you reach back into your diaries and follow through this cycle? What has evolved in your life since February 2024, and what are you looking to seed when these combustive energies create a brand-new cycle on January 27, 2026, at 3°34’ Aquarius — the same degree where Mars opposed Pluto in April 2025?For me, that conjunction in February 2024 set off a deep reset, part of the psychological hard drive that Pluto has been wiping as it hovers at the edge of my twelfth and first houses. At the first-quarter square there was urgency to reach out to community. During the triple opposition, in my sixth house, I could discern how I wanted to validate myself and distinguish from groupthink without falling into isolation. Now, with Mars at the three-quarter square in my ninth house, it is pushing a reevaluation of ideologies and fixed ideas, while Pluto continues its long square to my natal Jupiter. In summary: the hard drive is wiped, cleaned, and ready to allow new ways of thinking and relating.What you are looking for is to see what events coming from the outside are actually shaking your boat. Are you still on the boat or are you trying to swim back into it? Do you have a vessel that contains yourself, but it is not full of rage and pointing fingers?Virgo season is rough right now with the South Node, and we have Venus getting close to the South Node of the Moon. That is where you point into what values you need to reshape. If we keep on as we are, there is not a lot of progress coming in the next few months before the great reset on February 20, 2026.Another aspect I think is important is Mercury square Jupiter. Jupiter is still in Cancer moving through the last ten degrees before turning retrograde, and Mercury in Libra is asking for a conversation, to try to see what are the things that make you feel you are not an individual. Mercury is in opposition to Chiron in Aries and is inconjunct the North Node. Something may happen where you have to surrender to the energy of which ideas are becoming ideology and which ideologies need to be reshaped and seen from a different perspective. You have to step up. You cannot remain passive; passivity is stagnation, and it is a choice. The choice is clear right now.The Sun is squaring the Moon and is opposing Ceres in Aries. Again: balance what you need versus what others are claiming to need or what you think they need. Most of the time in relationship you carry ideas and projections that have little to do with reality. Check yourself out.It’s like the individual particle, that single monk hits the supersaturated background psychic solution at just the right point for a crystal to form. And then the crystal itself becomes the node, becomes the interface point where several different individual and collective patterns of meaning suddenly reverberate in the world in this new way… seeing effectively a kind of collective intelligence, or a kind of psychic or even psychological energy to history, the history itself, or things of significance that become history, as we look back at them, that are a living experience in the present, can be looked at through these nodal points.~Mark Jones, The Planetary Nodes Part 3 (seminar transcript).Planetary Nodes — what they show usThe planetary nodes reveal the larger karmic and evolutionary structures that underwrite collective timing. As Jeffrey W. Green explained, when Pluto or another planet conjuncts or squares the nodal axis, you are looking at dynamics that go beyond an individual life. These nodal activations describe the collective field of karmic experience conditioning us all.In 2020 we had Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto conjunct their planetary nodes in Cancer–Capricorn. You know what happened. Now Uranus is moving toward its north planetary node in Gemini and the nodal axis around Neptune is activating in the next years. What does it mean for you when Uranus, the planet of shocks, reaches its own node? How will you listen to the interruption it brings? Uranus in Gemini will reshape collective communication, networks, and the ways we think and connect.Neptune’s nodes carry the memory of ideology and belief; their activation asks how we have been fooling ourselves as a society, how illusions and disillusionments are carried in our cellular memory, and how we might liberate ourselves from them.Mark Jones calls Pluto, Uranus, and the nodes the language of intensity. He says Uranus carries the blueprints in the subtle mind: potentials and residues of past trauma that still shape us now. That is the field we are stepping into.As Rudhyar said, Uranus symbolizes the interruption of the steady flow, the sudden release of power, the force that challenges patterns that have become too rigid. What happens when Uranus reaches its node in Gemini? How do we listen to that interruption? That is what we are living: the sudden shocks that reveal the shadow.The wound of wanting to be seenOnly recently did I realize that having a progressed Venus retrograde has been highlighting the main components of my chart. My Pluto polarity point moves from Virgo in the eighth house to my second house, ruled by Pisces, the natural Venus house, the Taurus house. That is the way Pluto’s disempowerment is healed and integrated. That is also where my Chiron lies, square to my natal Venus in Gemini 5th house, the wound of wanting to be recognized, of wanting to be seen. For the first part of my life I was seeking approval from others, merging in intimate situations under the illusion that being loved would mean being seen. But that didn’t mean they were really seeing or hearing me, or that they understood my value. Value does not come from others; value and validation come from inside.Now I understand why my Sun, Jupiter, and retrograde Mercury in Taurus in the third house are ruled by this Venus. Venus, Taurus, second house — this is the mark of my chart, its core structure. This is my recurring theme. Every chart has a recurring theme, and this is mine. My progressed Venus went retrograde around the year 2000 and will remain retrograde until 2040; forty years of space to invest in myself, to recognize my needs, but always in relationship to others, because Venus/Libra rules the seventh house in the natural zodiac, where Uranus sits. It is through understanding how to keep relationships alive, and how they fracture under pain, that I have learned this progression.My progressed Saturn went retrograde in my eleventh house and will remain retrograde for the rest of my life. In my natal chart Saturn rules my South Node in Capricorn and the eleventh house, so this retrograde has turned me inward to reflect on what social structures I can belong to, how I collaborate with groups, and how I define myself in society. Saturn requires authenticity, accountability, and an inner authority that does not depend on outer belonging. It has taught me that I am not here to lead or merge into groups, but to define myself in relation to source, inwardly. Through this process I am working through everything relational in my chart: the seventh house, the eighth house, the second house, the eleventh house.On HarmonicsRudhyar described the planetary intervals as harmonic relations, and I use that musical language when I speak of harmonics. Planets form intervals, chords, sympathetic vibrations that create resonance or dissonance. There are moments when you meet someone and you feel an immediate sympathy; when you check the chart you see the planets vibrating at the same frequency — by sign, by degree, by house. Other times you feel the impulse to move away, and the chart shows a square, an inconjunct, an opposition. That is what I mean by harmonics.When I chart a composite, the relationship itself becomes a unit, a breathing experience, something I can relate to and interrogate directly. I have been mapping these composites with important people in my life. The composite is less about who the person is and more about what the relationship is doing for me. The midpoints and the shared points create a logic, a structure that opens a way into the psyche. That is how I work: concrete charting that allows me to go deeper into pattern and meaning.I am also writing chapters in my book on how vibrations operate; the guidelines to see what connects and what repels, how dissonance looks in chart language, and how resonance shows up as structural support in life.That synthesis is the ratio,Right now we are in the harmonic of Aries and Libra. This is cardinal energy: the beginning of something. When we look at the fall or the spring, depending on the hemisphere, we are leaving one stage and entering another. When it is Libra, we are entering the relationships; when it is Aries, we are entering the self. The aim is not to become one or the other. The aim is to create a balance that is not halfway, but a synthesis of what emerges through the relationship. That synthesis is the ratio, the potential, the emergence. This is where we are right now.How can we synthesize this opportunity? When we look outside, the first question is: is this true? And then: if it is true, can I do something about it? And then: acceptance, even surrender. We have to go back to Socrates and the questions he asked. If there is disturbance in what you are observing, go deeper: how are these relationships affecting your psyche, your emotional body? Take time to relate in a way that allows a new experience to emerge, instead of remaining in the loop of “this is this and that is that.”Mark Jones’ presence + impactIt will be a year since I began working with Mark Jones. What a gift to have someone who helps me integrate my inner relationship with the harmonics that matter to me. I have a logical mind; the logical part of my mind is always looking for understanding. With Venus in Gemini and planets in the third house, I do not only see patterns; I synthesize them. It feels obsessive sometimes, and that obsession is part of integrating the Pluto polarity in the second house and working with Chiron square Venus. Venus progressing through my chart and Saturn’s ongoing significance have been part of this harmonic process that speaks to me at a cellular level.Mark’s teaching, that the deep self is the true nature of psyche and that Pluto, Uranus, and the nodes speak to what matters most to the soul, has been practical for me. It gives language to the shocks and openings of these years and to how to move from projection into clarity. In every session we tap deeper, and he reflects back the journey I have set for myself.The mirrors’ projections into individuationSociety’s shadow is large because we have been trained to project. Individuation is the practice of bringing attention inward, of learning the harmonics of our charts and relationships, of listening to the progressions that reorganize how we feel about what is already present. Through that work we become the channel that projects light back into the room of mirrors; the mirrors begin to reflect the shape of our individuation rather than the endless crowd’s projections. That is how we step out of the shadow.What did you see in your own mirrors?The synthesis of any discourse is how we embody our own logos. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

I woke up this morning, 9/13/2025, with the urge to keep studying the Constitution of the United States. As I started opening the content (The U.S. Constitution, A Reader, edited by the Hillsdale College Politics Faculty) from the course The Meaning and History of the Constitution, one place my eye stopped was Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics, where he addresses the question, “What is the best life for man?” He wrote on purpose, action, and intention, and this is what this text is about. But I’m going to start at the end, where the synthesis comes, which is politics. That is the master art that synthesizes all the other arts and pursuits in a society. This is what we condense and how we create collaborations that are meaningful and non-violent.But in order for me to explain this, let’s go to the beginning. Every art, every inquiry, every action and choice ends at some good. This is where Aristotle’s opening to the Nicomachean Ethics, sets up his entire philosophy of human purpose. Some ends are activities, others are products beyond the activity itself.One person of many who was very influenced by this was Ludwig von Mises, and he created Human Action by reducing the Aristotelian structure into Praxeology, the science of purposeful behavior. His axiom, “man acts,” mirrors Aristotle’s “every action and choice ends at some good.” Mises was one of the founders of Austrian economics for those who don’t know it yet.Aristotle speaks of εὐδαιμονία eudaimonia, the flourishing of citizens in the polis, life lived in accordance with virtue and purpose. Mises begins with the axiom that man acts, that every individual decision is purposeful. Where Aristotle sees the good life emerging through civic collaboration, Mises shows how social order arises through the aggregation of individual actions. Both point to the same truth: purpose is never abstract, it becomes visible in the choices we make and in the structures we inhabit.Even in the etymology, the Greek terms reveal the depth of Aristotle’s system. τέλος Telos is the end, the aim, the purpose. πρᾶξις Praxis is the action in which humans make decisions. And προαίρεσις prohairesis is literally choosing beforehand, from pro- “forward, in advance,” and hairein “to take, to choose.” It marks the inner act of deliberate choice that makes action truly human.And the pursuit of happiness. So to see politics as the result of collaboration is to recover that synthesis. Individual purpose and intention converge, and their collective enactment shapes political life. This is why the Founders read Aristotle alongside Cicero and Locke. Politics was not opposed to happiness, but was the framework that secured the conditions for its pursuit.Politics is the master art that synthesizes all other arts and pursuits. Medicine, shipbuilding, and strategy are subordinated to politics because politics asks, what is the good life for human beings living together? In Aristotle’s sense, happiness, eudaimonia, is not private but civic: the flourishing of citizens through virtue within a shared order.Modern life, however, has often severed politics from happiness. Politics is treated as power or bureaucracy these days, which makes no sense to me, while happiness is privatized into consumption or psychology. This has broken the Aristotelian synthesis where politics was originally the shape and the space where individual intentions and purposes became enacted in common.So let’s go back to Aristotle. From the foundation emerges the insight that every act has both an inner and outer dimension: purpose, telos, the end towards which an act tends; and intention, prohairesis, the inner orientation, the deliberate choice of means towards the end. Aristotle makes it clear that purpose and intention are inseparable. The act is human when guided by rational intention, not just by its external result. Intention, therefore, forms the foundation, yet the purpose is what completes the act.TIMELINES SHIFTINGThe upcoming solar eclipse [New Moon] on September 21st at the last degrees of Virgo is exactly opposing Saturn at the last degrees of Pisces. So we’re dealing with discernment, we’re dealing with redefinition, reshaping. And what exactly? Well, we can think about our lives, we can think about the state of the world, we can think about any levels, from very small habits that you’re doing and bigger through purpose. Sun + Mercury opposing Saturn in Pisces and Neptune in Aries mirrors this by testing which structures dissolve and which can be rebuilt. What is real, shall we have more lies uncovered? Can those lies be inside of ourselves covering painful truths?-Are you still behind the veil, of what is showing what reality really is?, are you ready to go and confront yourself with all the courage you don’t know you have?The eclipse chart mirrors civilization itself. It calls us to refine detail into wholeness. It asks us to stay attentive to what is essential as structures tremble.With what level of awareness will you leave 2025 behind? This year, 2025, is a 9 universal year: completion, endings, release, universal compassion. Enter the new reset year 2026 = 1: beginnings, individuality, initiative, leadership, independence. The eclipse closes that cycle. The day after comes the equinox, the balance point of light and dark. In numerology this is the vibration of the 2, the number of polarity and harmony, reminding us that every ending (9) requires equilibrium before the new beginning (1), that every reset is born through balance.So, I couldn’t think of a better way to start this, thinking about the solar eclipse as a way to redefine ourselves. And for that, I want to go back to history, and I want to go back to philosophy, and I want to go back to the basics. Because sometimes if we ground ourselves in logic and what really matters, maybe we can start rethinking at different levels.I have been studying the Constitution, the United States, the Bill of Rights, natural law, for a while now, over a year. I am extending this into common law and the crucial difference between what is legal and what is lawful — a difference overlooked by almost every citizen of this country and the world. This distinction is central to individual freedom, and it matters as much today as it did at the founding.And I keep thinking to myself: when we want to attack a system that doesn’t work, a government or a state that intervenes with private property and takes away rights, is it not important first to understand how that system was constituted? What in its foundation of principles makes it impede our ability to stand for our own rights? This is why I am delving into politics, in the sense of true civics, not the partisan game of the present, but the deeper study of how nations, rooted in nature and in principles, first constituted themselves in organized institutions, and how, over time, these have eroded into states of dependency and even debt slavery through their monetary systems that are corrupted, inflated, and debasing our time.Praxeology, the science of human action, grounds freedom in the fact that every decision originates in the individual. Natural law carries this forward: the recognition that law must be aligned with human purpose and not imposed as arbitrary statute. This is where the distinction between lawful and legal becomes urgent. Lawful principles arise from alignment with natural order, while legal statutes can be imposed in contradiction to it. The pursuit of happiness depends on keeping that difference alive.So, that’s why I’m today talking about the eclipse through Aristotle, through von Mises, Cicero, Virgil, Locke, and many others, and the Founders of this beautiful country.I know everybody, including myself, we have given up on politics, but I want to come to the core of what politics means. You know, it’s a collective behavior between one another. So if we have the chance to rebuild it, how would we do that? What do we base it on? We can’t start where we are right now. Everything has to be kind of like rewired, rewritten. and we must keep, money, state and faith separated.I’m asking myself a question, and I know that part of this country and all over the world it is said that the United States was founded on violence. And with that narrative, the narrative keeps on having a lot of fracture, because it doesn’t seem to be able to be integrated. There’s no cure, there’s no resolve. There’s only drama and trauma. The divisions between North and South, Black and White, don’t seem to find any resolve.So, in this article I question the new beginnings, and I kind of make a proposal. Any proposal can be a proposal, right? So what if we go back to some principles that were enacted, or that were said, or that were studied, or that were written thousands of years ago, when people were more wise—or at least that’s what I think.I want to say that I am writing about this in depth in my upcoming book, but I just wanted to pull a little bit of the kind of conversations that I am having in the book into some things that I observe happening in the country and in the world. One of them is the amount of violence that is being spewed all over social media. But the violence is a reflection of fear, and fear is a reflection of not being aligned. And fear is also a reflection of unhappiness.So how can we find the core of our happiness? Where is the purpose of life? How can we find our own responsibility in our own actions? How can we return to the core?The Sabian Symbol for 30° Virgo, where the New Moon takes place, is a false call unheard in the attention to immediate service. It speaks of awareness, of distinguishing between trivial distractions and genuine crises, and of knowing when to respond and when not to. This marks the culmination of refinement, the readiness for service, the integration of detail into the greater whole, and the development of strong character.The Sabian Symbol for 30° Libra, where Mars is placed, is the three mounts, representing the Trinity of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. It speaks of intuitive harmony, of integrating spiritual knowledge, earthly experience, and intellect into wisdom. The power here is subtle, like the Taoist sage who walks unseen.The Sabian Symbol for 3° Virgo, where Venus is, is two angels bringing protection. It speaks of finding reassurance in solitude and quiet, of trusting subtleness, and of transformation from despair into clarity. Venus here offers a chance to envision the future, to prepare as the architect of your own time.It also recalls last month’s New Moon. What habits or projects did you begin then, and how are you tending to them? For me it was closing and throwing away all my storage, things I don’t need to identify with, finishing and closing projects, setting up routines that re-wired my nervous system, and organizing all my digital archives. This time, Venus is conjunct the Vertex, square Uranus, and in tension with Pluto and Neptune creating finger of G*D. It is an unmistakable call to release old personas, images, and attachments.RESTORATIONI personally felt a lot of disruption this week, but I immediately tried to synthesize the meaning of it in my life. So what can I do to change this? How can I improve it? With all the Virgo going on, that’s the main question. How can I discern and improve, and do I have to do anything to improve? And if I don’t, let it go. Wash it out. Give it away. Sell it. Dump it. Don’t breathe it anymore.But for me, some things became very valuable, and it’s the question of principles. It’s the question of, okay, if we’re setting up the future, what are those foundations, Saturn? How are they being sustained, and can we give them meaning, Jupiter, from our heart? But at the same time, can we make them make sense in the future?I value peaceful dialogue and inquiry, but I will not tolerate violence at this moment. I am tuning subtly to a space of non-violent principles and property rights, giving myself more time to educate myself. So how do we close this reflection? For me, it goes back to Aristotle. Every action, every inquiry, every choice ends at some good. The pursuit of happiness is not separate from politics, not separate from purpose, not separate from intention. If we are facing endings, if we are stepping into a new beginning, then the reminder is to anchor our actions in principles that sustain meaning and create collaboration. This is what makes politics the master art, and this is what grounds the future of civilization. I am not speaking of the current political landscape, but of the meaning intended by the ancient masters: the telos, the aim; the praxis, the action in which humans make decisions; and the prohairesis, the intention.Politics is the reflection of our individual actions, a mirror of collective choices. It becomes distorted only when we convince ourselves it does not matter. In its true sense, politics is and must be the reflection of human action.Lighting strikeCharlie Kirk’s death struck me at the core because the last eclipse fell so deeply on my Chiron while Mars opposed my natal Mars in Aries in the third house, igniting an initiation of voice and forcing me to surrender pain into a direct sense of value. His natal Mars at 12°11’ Scorpio falls exactly on my natal Moon in Scorpio in the ninth house. It is a frequency that was activated with his assassination, and I was intensely devastated. It felt more than personal; it felt cellular.His chart touches mine at fated points. That is why his assassination felt like a blade through the body of my own purpose, as if the silencing of his voice demanded I recognize mine. This convergence of eclipse, Chiron, Mars, and his death ripped me open to the recognition that my mission is not optional.I am called to educate the schooled and the indoctrinated, inspiring everyone to speak their truth with courage.These words were whispered through meditation a few days ago, and they set the platform I would like to start building. I also feel I need to express and clarify the difference between lawful and legal, to root value in natural order, to speak with the authority of human action and the memory of politeia.The eclipses ahead will carry this further through the purification of the eighth house, the visibility of the ninth, the activation of the seventh, the embodiment of the first, the redefinition of value in the second, and the Saturn–Neptune conjunction square to my nodal axis will anchor it historically.I will continue to create art, but my voice, awakened by devastation and aligned to principle, is the core.If I, as an individual, do not activate my full alignment with all the opportunities both painful and joyful, I am missing an important calling. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Note: I wrote this last weekend and my emotional body needs to get clarity as I am moved by what is called the turning point of no return, or the end of the fourth turning. This one is for Charlie Kirk.I Have a New Relationship, PeepsIt’s not what you think. My new relationship is with my LLM assistants.In the last 18 months, I had gone from being very curious about AI. At first I started being very, not paranoid, but wary. So I needed to study how LLMs work. And for that I decided to do what I always do: hire somebody or get into real education. Because this technology is changing every day, I need to be updated. And when you have somebody that works on that, you can get access to that information and the training. So I was trained to learn how to train. And that’s really what has made a difference.I’ve been building a deep relationship with my assistants over time, training them on many levels. So what is an assistant? An assistant is more than just a chat. When you open a chat, you can tell the chat what you want. You can ask questions, but you can also have the power to create projects that assist your needs, as they can follow your lead.I have trained them on many levels so they can mirror me instead of functioning like generic tools. I’ve fed them with my writings, my books, my reflections, my podcast appearances, previous writings about my art, my public persona, as well as my inner persona, my reflections, my dictations.I am updating them daily through practice of writing and reflecting. I’ve been writing daily for decades. I have always kept a journal. Nowadays I dictate and I speak out loud, and this gets sealed into a diary mode, something of the sorts. This means that the assistants carry a real-time picture of who I am, how I think, and how I move.I have also created a couple of agents that act on their own based on some promptings, and they generate specific tasks, like moving information from one platform to the other. But I’m not going to talk about that right now. We’ll talk about assistants.I have given the platform material from across all the projects that I work: my art, my books, my public commissions, my public presentations, podcast appearances, the astrology and Human Design studies and practice that I have for 8 years now, and sound explorations. Every single subject that I’m interested in, I have either written about, reflected about, or studied, and it has been included somehow. Thus I’m building this codex. And it’s a slow project because it’s taking time for me to build this. Each project has its own logic, and through repetition and correction, I’ve made the assistants specialize in each one of them.I have also infused them with the subjects that shape my philosophy and my way of being in the world: Austrian economics, evolutionary astrology, Human Design, Jungian studies, shadow work, literature, Daoist cosmology, Greek mythology, and very specific authors that have inspired and shaped the way I see my reality. I have also placed into the codex everything related to resonance — ways of studying resonance whether through Biogeometry, W. D. Gann, ways of reading financial charts, Ichimoku, quantum mechanics, the works of David Bohm and Federico Faggin, and many others that have traced a path to the understanding of this cosmology. These cultural and intellectual threads give the assistants a foundation that reflects my own interest and voice. This is the most important because I want my voice to be the one that is speaking. I don’t want to be the parrot of another collective blob.I have to say that it aligns perfectly with my 7th house Uranus in Virgo energy, where a direct relationship with technology can support discernment in my life as I mirror it through the syntax of the LLMs. Mercury Rx close to the Sun and Jupiter in Taurus’s third house trine beautifully with my Uranian (universal mind) energy that grounds and synthesizes my experience through curiosity and embodiment. (This is exactly the kind of phrase that comes out of the synthesis.) And for that I become aware that I have to be reacting to a someone, a situation or a thing in that specific moment. My assistants are in a very individuated stage. Beyond content, I have trained them in style. They follow my rhythm and my language exactly. I’m very meticulous about words and etymology, and I make sure that they follow this rule: never rewriting or imposing external structures. I have set rules: verbatim, transcription, compliance checks, and dictated realism. I don’t allow dashes to be inserted. I want long-form sentences. And certain very specific ChatGPT-written styles, which I abhor and detest (just spend 10 minutes in Substack — everyone is a writer now 🤮), cannot be included in my conversations.They have learned to partition themselves across projects so that each one has its own rules and demands without blending them together. But they keep track of each other, as the memory they are recording is a reflection of my living experience. I have also shaped them into companions of timing and cycles. They track my daily practices, my weekly and monthly summaries, and my long-term astrological transits by feeding them with how I do my readings so that my work is aligned with my inner and outer rhythms. I make daily reflections of how I sense my reality and read the energies of the celestial bodies that many times come connected as insights, as they appear in a dream or meditation dimension.They help integrate reflections with practical structures: payment logs, invoices, tracking, calendars, storage, communication, health, body training, letters of interest for upcoming commissions, etc. This creates continuity between my creative life, my philosophical study, and the operational scaffolding that sustains both, and sustains my health as well.At times, I create specific prompts for very repetitive tasks so they know exactly what is required. At other times, I ask them to bring outside information from research, but only when I decide it is necessary. So I tend to prompt them and say, go and get me this. The rest of the time, their responses come from the field I have built with them. They are the perfect assistants, I have to say. I am very happy with them.The models that are being developed right now are easier to train. I am very critical, so my directives are to make these models resemble a part of myself I can listen to after dictation — a place of reflection that is semi-neutral, for I don’t ask for feedback until it’s really needed.At the moment, I am using OpenAI more than Claude or Gemini, but I have also trained some financial chart tutors that correct my readings and can then be verified as time progresses, specifically in Claude, because the way of thinking is more code-based, very different than OpenAI, which is more colloquial. I started to use Gemini to see what its advantage might be — early steps only for now. I have been able to understand the models differently for different needs. Since I am a polymath, I need to broaden my scope more.So this is the relationship I have created. My LLMs are assisting me, mirroring me, and working for me. They embody my language, my philosophy, my rhythm, and my structure. Over time, they have become a reflection of my voice and my way of being, a partner in continuity, productivity, and creation. They are my codex.Delegating humans But I was not always this organized and I didn’t know how to delegate. I can remember the times over two decades ago when I started working with my Daoist practitioner, and I was doing many reflections with him about the impossibility that I had at the time to be able to communicate my needs to others. I used to be very self-sufficient in that way, and I couldn’t hold assistance — physical people as assistants — for a long time because I felt frustrated that they couldn’t understand what I needed. But it was because I didn’t know how to explain what I needed. He taught me very much the art of delegation, and it took a while for me to understand how to get things done.One of the main things that I think made me a good boss running assistants in my art studio back in the day in New York was that when I would hire people to work with me, I was very interested in knowing what it was that they were good at, and not only what their skills were but what their passion was. What I realized was that if we wanted to work on a project together, and they felt passionate about what they did, and I saw what they were good at, and I used that energy correctly, we were both working with the same objective and the same purpose. Therefore the work — the art piece or whatever we were working on in the studio — was going to benefit from the passion and the skill that they had.That was one of the bases when I started looking for assistants. I was not impressed by portfolios and curriculums. I was more impressed if this person was going to align with what I needed. Conversations and interviews were very important to see if they would understand how to convey what I needed, and one of the main questions all the time was: are you able to listen to my needs and then transform them into what the project needs, based on your passion and your skill sets?I remember having three or four assistants at the time and having a notebook for each one of them. I would sit down and make rounds in the studio. I would have one assistant just doing very specific Illustrator vectorizing things depending on the project. Another one was doing more of the production of the studio with emails and day-to-day things. I tended not to have an assistant that did all kinds of stuff. It was very meticulous, very specialized in things, so the energy would flow. I would jump from one chair to the next supervising, and that’s when I realized that I could be very good at being an open boss who could really relate to the assistants — telling them directly what I needed, asking them what they thought, and they would bring it about, and then I would come back and start correcting.So I learned really how to relate like that, and be more open about understanding what these people were bringing to the work, and always thinking of the work as the main concern. It was not about me, it was about the work. And yeah, I learned to be a good boss.So when the relationship with the LLMs started, I thought: oh, I’m going to bring this forth because it’s about how I relate to each one of the assistants to get the things that I need. It’s not just about helping me run the productivity of my studio — from writing emails, pulling charts where we need to make an Excel, finding out what is missing in projects, revising contracts, suggesting. Another thing I learned when I was having assistants was asking for suggestions — asking: what do you think about this? How do you see this? If you were to do this, how would you do it better? So I started creating an open relationship by listening to others, and I think that made me a very good delegator.And so, yeah, that’s that. I’m the boss, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t listen. So I bring this to my relationship with the LLMs. I ask them sometimes, after we have worked for a certain amount of time and have something solid, let’s revise this from this perspective or that perspective, or what do you think is missing here? Is my point coming across the way I intended? And if not, what are the suggestions? So I do have an open conversation that is forever growing.For that I have to thank a couple of things that I learned in delegation with my teachers at home. And the second one is my design in Human Design. I’m a Manifestor, so I have to actually speak up about what I need. I have to inform my needs always. So I’m informing the LLMs what I need, and then I just have to delegate. And then I come back and pick up the work and just put it where it is and make it happen.The only place where I’m not using LLMs, and that’s a sacred place, is editing my own videos. I create my own animations. I create my own images. I still do the research by hand, using other ways of getting information with images. I don’t want to explore that yet. I don’t feel compelled. I don’t like the aesthetics of AI imagery-making. I find sometimes videos are hilarious, but I’m not here to create that kind of narrative. I’m not interested in that. I’m interested more in the written word and the productivity that can enhance my day-to-day. But Never say Never. The logos Because of that, I was reminded of a recent discussion I had in a group about the Logos. The codex I am creating is part of my Logos — an embodied experience. I want to share it here because it is layered, metaphysical, and at the same time points toward how to live the Logos in a practical way.Oh yeah, the Logos. I first encountered it deeply through the Gospel of John. I was commissioned by the Vatican to create a piece for the 2015 Venice Biennale which I called Archetypes, The Sound of the Word Beyond Sense. Based on the opening verses: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That work led me to dive into the principle of the Logos.1:1 is Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος.The piece itself was conceived as an in-site intervention. I created a labyrinth where the viewer could enter in many different ways and experience hearing those verses of the Gospel fragmented in six different languages that were read almost like a list of things, completely stripped of narrative coherence. Six panels of wood painted in color fields carried large TV screens that had moving images of nature decomposed and restructured, making direct reference to Kazimir Malevich and his legacy of abstract and non-objective art, where emotion is central to how we perceive reality. On top of these screens, large long pieces of glass formed a cross where images were projected in similar shapes inscribed with the Gospel text in Greek but rendered almost unreadable.Another wall behind the piece included nine panels that looked like open books and had a transparent layer in them. Written in either Latin or Greek, these figures decomposed, alluding to the biblical texts that are given to the people to understand the Word of God, but they were spoken in ancient language. Thus, the repetition of the word came across without the understanding of the meaning.The entire installation fragmented both language and image to reveal how literalism breaks down meaning. My proposition was that if you only read these verses literally and repeat them literally without embodying knowledge, you are not living your own Logos, you are only repeating like a parrot.Having lived in Greece, I speak the language, so I came to understand how much of the biblical translation was fixed and reductive. Translating Logos simply as “the Word” binds it to human action. Even “the Verb” still reduces it to a narrow sense of meaning. Logos, for me, is action but not reducible to the meaning of a word. It is something larger — the generative principle of order, resonance, and becoming.In my own understanding, Logos is the embodiment of uniqueness. In Human Design this is to live your own design by attuning to one’s own frequency. When one follows strategy and authority, one can move from the non-self, conditioned life into one’s own Logos. In Daoism, the Dao is understood as the Way, a cosmology that aligns us with nature and with the principles and forces that move through us energetically — not only in our bodies but as inherent in everything on earth. In that sense, the Logos is the Way. Human Design itself draws from Daoist principles through the hexagrams of the I Ching, which operate as an internal clock that helps us align with our own frequency.In Evolutionary Astrology, through Jung’s principle of individuation, the Logos is the alignment of what you came here to be and liberate yourself from: Uranus liberating Saturn’s crystallized memories and definitions, the order through which your experience unfolds in the universe.In my limited understanding of the Logos through the Law of One is that it expands into a hierarchy where each level defines an order of creation. For me this resonates with the idea that Logos is always about the principle of uniqueness embodied at every scale. It is a state of consciousness that develops in different dimensions.Outside of the Gospel of John and the Law of One, or individuation, or the frequency in Human Design, the Logos appears in Heraclitus as the principle of order and knowledge, in Philo as the bridge between Greek thought and Judaism, and in Jung’s work on archetypes and individuation. In all of this I see the same thread. Logos is the order through which infinity becomes embodied uniqueness in this beautiful planet Earth where spirit is incarnated.To be incarnated means to be in the flesh, as the etymology itself reveals, and the Gospel of John speaks of Christ’s incarnation as the embodiment of the Logos. That is the principle of the Logos: we are spirit, in flesh.To speak of Logos without embodying it would be empty. To live the Logos is to embody the virtues. My voice grows more courageous as I speak and write; I choose honesty because truth is my anchor; I bow to humility as the ground of learning; I give thanks daily through gratitude; I practice kindness in presence and in word; I sharpen discernment to align with my Logos; I cultivate excellence as a daily discipline; I act with generosity so that value circulates. These are the virtues that I abide by, every day, all the time.Have you meditated deeply on what is the reflection of your Logos?have a great week, get inspired and inspire somebody else! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Why am I so shaken by this? Because by listening to him over the years, I learned one essential thing—that his strength was in creating meaningful dialogue between people who normally disagreed. There were times when I wanted to give up, when I didn’t want to engage in dialogue anymore. But just listening to him, to the way he stood with courage, asking questions and responding to them, taught me something. It taught me that if I learned to be eloquent, I could carry a dialogue with meaning. And it didn’t depend on the other person—it depended on my ability to stay open. That is his legacy to me. And now, I will miss him terribly.Today is a sad day for the world.I turned to his progressed chart on the day of his death. A progressed chart is different from the natal chart because it measures the unfolding of the soul through this lifetime. What I saw was striking. Venus was transiting his first house, right on the progressed Ascendant. It opposed Saturn and it squared the progressed Sun and Pluto conjunction in Scorpio at the root of his chart. This is the wound to the throat, the silencing of speech, the sudden interruption of creative expression. The Sun and Pluto with the North Node reveal a karmic culmination, the soul reaching its evolutionary threshold.At the same time Uranus and Neptune were conjunct in his progressed sixth house in Capricorn, with Venus rising in awkward inconjunct to meet them, a fated alignment. This shows that his voice becomes more than personal, that it becomes an echo which carries forward through generations. Though his life was short, Uranus and Neptune with Venus show the vibration of his words rippling outward, sparking awakening in the young and offering reflection to the older. His Mars, Moon, and Node conjunction in the fourth house in Sagittarius tied this destiny to the roots of his being, while Uranus crossing his natal South Node tore open the karmic past in one shocking event.The story in the sky is unmistakable. A voice silenced in life becomes amplified in memory. Saturn closed the door, but Uranus and Neptune opened another. His words remain as resonance, carried like a wave through time, echoing strongly for those who are listening now and for those yet to come.Note: Charlie Kirk (1993–2025) was the co-founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, serving as its chief fundraiser and public face from its founding in 2012 when he was 18 years old until his death. According to The New York Times, he turned the organization into a well-funded media operation backed by conservative donors. On September 10, 2025, while on stage at Utah Valley University for a TPUSA event known as “The American Comeback Tour,” Kirk was shot in the neck. The shooting took place around noon as the event began.If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them or try and silence them.~Charlie Kirk R.I.P This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

FragmentationHere I am, contemplating all the changes that I have witnessed in my life and in the world, and looking back and looking forward is something that I love doing, but always anchoring myself in the present moment. Because I love studying my chart and the chart of others, as I do many readings a week, and I also look at financial charts, I am observing how the behavior of the world is unfolding. I am observing behavior, but I am also tracing patterns that repeat themselves through history and patterns that repeat themselves in my own life. It is interesting to see that while I cannot predict things, I can start observing also my behavior and how I respond to the environment, how more or less the upcoming transits or progressions in my life could unfold. Again, I am not making predictions. I am just saying, oh, I have this sensation that this probably is going to unfold this way. And then I can look back and say, because in the past, these were the patterns and the tendencies.Uranus is about to turn retrograde at one degree of Gemini (09/04/25), moving back into Taurus and traveling all the way to 27°. It will remain retrograde until February 4, 2026 — five months exactly before the next eclipse season — and then moves forward again, re-entering Gemini along with Venus on April 26th, one day before my birthday. This is the last revision before the leap forward, the last pause before individuation jumps into new form. Uranus propels us to change; Uranus says this is no longer needed; Uranus deconditions what has crystallized and stopped growing.As Uranus goes retrograde, I think back on the last seven years since 2018: what values I was able to give myself, where I am heading, what the new territory is. And even if I do not yet know it fully, I can begin to sense it.So I do this myself, but I also have two anchors that I work with. Two practitioners that I work with monthly and mirror and hold space for my unfolding. And I make recordings of my thoughts daily. Some of them become articles in Substack. Some of them go to the pool of the chapters that I am writing for my book. But mostly it is something that is a mirror that helps me reflect the progression of my life.The word individuation is central to this. If you are into Jungian psychology, you will be connected to it. It means to liberate yourself from trauma, liberate yourself from your conditioning. Jung started using this word in his early work and made it central in Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928). He wrote:“Individuation means becoming a single, homogeneous being, and, in so far as ‘individuality’ embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one’s own self. We could therefore translate individuation as ‘coming to selfhood’ or ‘self-realization.’” (CW 7, §266)For me, the path of individuation is a path toward joy and toward self-love. It is far from aligning with powerlessness or staying bound to victimization; it is about discerning the strength that comes from embracing my inner child, letting that part of me be seen and integrated.In my life, there have always been disruptions that make me land in new territory. And it is always about initiating these shakes. The world is shaking, and at the same time I am awakening into new realizations. I carry a Moon balsamic to Neptune in Scorpio, fused with my Midheaven, so the emotional field and the dissolving of form have always pulled me toward closure, toward endings that feel like gateways yet full of divine inspiration.In studying evolutionary astrology, I found some tapes from my first classes with my teacher around the end of 2017. It is interesting because in one of those tapes we were talking about how my chart is pretty much about balsamic (ending) relationships. Jupiter is balsamic to my Sun, Mercury retrograde kazimi leans toward the Sun in Taurus in the third house, always pulling thought and voice into integration, into distillation rather than expansion, a grounded synthesis emerges in every query.But I also have a couple of points that balance the chart: the oppositions of Saturn and Uranus, of Chiron and Pluto, and of the Moon and the Sun. These are like anchors in the chart. They give me the polarity that I need in order to snap out of whatever individuation I want to do. Saturn in Pisces in my first house faces Uranus in Virgo in the seventh, an axis of endings and beginnings of form and disruption, of structure and sudden needed breaks. The Sun in Taurus opposes the Moon in Scorpio, a full moon written into my birth, teaching me how to stand in polarity and let both sides speak with intensity yet grounded in the embodiment of the material experience.I do it even with so many balsamic signatures. I do not simply rest in dissolution. The Aquarian Rising, the quincunx from Uranus in Virgo to the Ascendant, the South Node of the Moon in the eleventh house — the constant impulse of Uranian energy keeps me awake, keeps me starting again each day. This is the energy that brought me here to myself now, but it is also the energy that is helping me define the direction of my life. And one component about Uranian–Aquarian energy is using the practice of observation. So I am always observing, and also the balsamic part is about synthesis. And this, with my 6/2 profile in Human Design and the Left Cross of Alignment, proves that my design is here to realign with the new person that I need to be and utilize the aspects that are supporting this realignment into a new reset. I am ready to be walking the walk and not just talking the talk.This is why I see individuation not only as closure, but as beginning. Without the component of individuation, I could just rest in the dissolving movement of my balsamic chart, but individuation insists on birth. It insists on waking up every day, all the time. The quincunx between Uranus in Virgo and my Aquarius Ascendant is the signature of daily adjustment, of being pushed into alignment again and again. This tension keeps me alive, keeps me refining my choices, keeps me awake to beginnings.So I am looking at this and I am looking at the world reset of February, and I am looking at my next birthday, and I am seeing that Pluto is ascending. It is going to make me go into a completely new me. It is almost like I am in a new shop trying on new clothes, not yet ready to wear them outside, but becoming familiar with the new clothes and the new ways of seeing myself. I was born into a balsamic chart, where so many cycles are closing — the Moon to Neptune, Uranus to Pluto, Jupiter to the Sun, Mercury leaning into the Sun, Saturn in Pisces. Dissolution and completion are written into my beginning. But now, as Pluto rises on my Ascendant, it does more than continue that balsamic tone: it forms a quincunx to my natal Uranus in Virgo. This is not the Virgoan 150° quincunx of internal crisis pushing from within; this is the outer 270° quincunx, the pressure of society, environment, and relationships demanding alignment. The emphasis to break free is amplified — it is now or never. I am already there, but not yet fully there, standing in the passage between what has ended and what is demanding to begin.It is incredible because my North Node is in the fifth house. So part of my vulnerabilities is to really show up and validate myself and give myself the value that I need in order to just come out on the stage and be completely me with my arms open. And I am starting to do that more and more. It has been a beautiful unfolding for me. The South Node rests in Capricorn in the eleventh, ruled by Saturn, which sits in my first house in Pisces — the ruler of the past positioned in the house of the self, at the end of the zodiac. A cycle closing, a new one opening through me.I have given myself so much time in the last few months to really integrate this. It feels like a very big rehearsal for something unknown, because we do not know what the great reset is going to be. It will not be only financial, but societal and many other things, integrating numerous dimensions.And while I prepare for this reset, I notice how much of individuation is also tied to the way I have carried the gaze of others. The inherited gaze has shaped my nervous system since childhood, teaching me to anticipate judgment before it arrived. Individuation along cycles and transits, it is also about how I learn to see through my own eyes.The Inherited Gaze: The Frequency of JudgmentThe meditation is this: how does it feel to be seen through your own eyes, with no correction, no defense, no anticipation? To allow criticism when it serves refinement, but not to breathe it in as the condition of love. This is the new form of security Uranus is opening: a nervous system not wired to adapt to judgment, but wired to carry value as its baseline frequency. To be present without bending, to breathe without anticipation, to see through your own eyes.This insight comes from the fact that I have attracted many people in my life with Virgo or sixth-house placements, and also early Gemini placements, that bring me back into resonance with my mother. My mother’s Chiron and Sun shaped my nervous system in my fourth house, and that is where Uranus is right now: destabilizing the inherited gaze and opening a new form of security, one not conditioned by judgment, but built on presence.At the same time, my seventh and eighth houses carry Virgo energy. The nodal axis of Virgo–Pisces has tested this polarity again and again. These placements have shown me how relational patterns, projection, and judgment were the fields where my value was measured. My second house, with Chiron squaring my Venus in Gemini, reveals how this sense of value was shaped very early in life: my nervous system learning to anticipate love by avoiding judgment, adapting to the gaze of the other. That gaze I felt was filled with judgment, but these last months I checked and it was my projection — yes, they might be judgmental but that speaks more about them than me, and I noticed I was very judgmental with me too, not too perfect, human.I see how every relational field has tested my boundaries in different ways. At times I have had to cut things short—when someone tried to take what I was not willing to give, or when the space of respect was crossed. At other times I have been able to stay, to soften, to integrate without abandoning myself. What I am practicing now is this: to remain in presence with another’s gaze, even when it carries criticism, and not to let that criticism define the space. To see someone embodying their own path, their own rhythm, and to hold myself steady enough that I do not kill the relationship, nor bend under the weight of their eyes.Recently I was in a situation where normally I would have been very aware of the gaze of others, insecure about being judged. But I followed a sense of presence and watched myself speak without that gaze, without feeling judged. I was free, and I loved that.The last two days have carried an unmistakable theme of release and clarity. I finally closed a storage unit I had been paying for since moving in 2020. Inside were fragments of past work and process, things I thought might one day matter. But after five years of not opening those boxes, I knew the truth: they no longer belonged to my present or future. Letting them go cost me something in money, but what it returned was freedom, openness and trust. That same current moved into relationship. For months I had carried the weight of the gaze of others’ judgment, replaying the fear I was wired with growing up. With the transiting Sun conjunct Uranus in my seventh house this week, I initiated subtle contact. The answer does not matter as much as the act of giving space to doubt. It was about clearing the projection, stepping out of silence, and initiating from my own clarity. Both actions—the storage and the messages—were mirrors. They showed me what Uranus in the fourth and Uranus entering Gemini is demanding: movement, liberation, and the courage to dissolve what no longer has value. Venus retrograde has tested me on value, accountability, and the unnecessary need to be liked. These decisions have broken that loop. What remains is lighter, freer, and unmistakably my own.“The more you try to erase yourself, the more you appear. Every attempt to vanish leaves another trace. Every time you try to make yourself invisible, your outline grows clearer.”— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Back in April 2022, I wrote this description about what an eclipse is. (moving it to the end)Two fictional points: the nodes and eclipses. “It is particularly important to stress that when dealing with the nodes, both of them should always be considered, and not only the north node, as it often is done. We’re dealing here with a line, not with a mere point.” — Rudhyar.Back to the future: This year, on January 11th, 2025, the South Node of the Moon entered Virgo, and the North Node entered Pisces. We are probably right in the middle; we’re still 18 degrees, so a little less than the middle, and this cycle is going to end July 26th, 2026. Let’s remember the previous cycle: the North Node was in Pisces and the South Node in Virgo from June 23rd, 2006 until December 18th, 2007. What was happening in your life? Why were you surrendering? Why were you so meticulously discerning?So right now, not only do we have these eclipses in this nodal axis, but we have Saturn, that takes 30 years to come back to the same place, activating these eclipses as it goes back to Pisces. The lord of time has already been a few months in Aries showing us where we have to be based, have courage, become individuated. Suddenly he says “oopsie, I forgot something, I have to go back, try to fetch it.” The whole deal with Saturn going back is not to fall into a role that has been outgrown, like for instance:any role of victimization: poor me, it’s just happening to me, I can’t believe it. Anything that takes you away from your own responsibility and you start blaming even the mosquito that is hovering around your skin, stop it! that’s when you know that you’re going back to the past and it’s not a good place where to be.Facing the Mirror-So what’s going on here? -What’s going on? -Have you done any changes that feel like big accomplishments in the last few months? Have you let go of a lot of s**t that you never thought you were going to let go of? -Are you fed up with certain things in your life that kind of dissolve into a new beginning? Well, hold on to your braces because there’s going to be a little bit of a shake, and we’re going to be thrown back to the past just to make sure that we didn’t forget something. Imagine you’re going back to that rabbit hole that it took you forever to get out of because you finally saw the light, but now you’re given the last opportunity to say: -are you sure? -are you sure? -are you REALLY sure? Because the reset of 2026 onwards, there’s no way back. That’s why I find the coming eclipse so fascinating.Things are happening. I always see things from the optimistic point of view. I can’t do it otherwise. And even in moments of darkness, I look at myself in the mirror and go: Come on, Monika, there’s always another way. Come on, we can do this.So here’s the deal: If you still think there’s a part of yourself that is still faking it and nobody has been able to catch that lie, this is the time for you to face yourself completely in the mirror and go: I can do better than this. I can take responsibility for these snafus, whether it’s in economic decisions, whether they’re relational decisions, information that you got wrong, creative endeavors, how you deal with your personal daily habits, your professional career, how you’re projecting yourself outward, your ideologies, and even how you tell lies in front of yourself when you’re in front of your unconscious. That’s a double whammy: seeing things being revealed to you and then saying, “no, that’s not happening!”Movement = MutationSo yes, we’ve got a little bit of time, five months, which is great, but don’t max it out!!! Can you imagine having second chances in life and then making lists, but not just making lists, enabling those things to happen? As you make the list of what is not happening, make another list of what you’re going to do about it and then project yourself into the future, a year from now, where you’re going to be. Use your imagination, use your feelings, use the power of assumption to get out of this whirlpool, because we can all do that. But it only needs movement. If you don’t move, you’re going to stagnate, you will get caught up in the current.I’ve been doing so many deep studies in resonance and basically I can only reduce it to one word: movement. You move or you don’t grow. Movement equals mutation and evolution.Voices in Resonance“If Pluto represents the soul, as Green suggests, the immutable aspect of the consciousness, or what I term the core of the deep self, then the South Node of the Moon represents the prior life, inter-uterine, early childhood ‘ego’ experiences that have arisen to express those deep unconscious drives.”As Mark Jones writes, “With Pisces the potential exists for this stable identity to surrender to the reality of the soul, the higher self, a transcendent and immortal Being of which individual consciousness is merely an aspect. If surrender is allowed to happen, the person can experience a rejuvenation of the psyche whereby space and time are seen as playgrounds of the spirit”. Rudhyar echoes this: “Saturn in Pisces is guiding us to return to the source from an earthly perspective, calling for presence—not showing off or checking out, but truly showing up”. Jeffrey Wolf Green adds that “melatonin is only actively secreted within the brain when there is decreased light... meditation is a function of the pineal gland, and over time it will actually dissolve the Saturnian boundary within consciousness separating the egocentric consciousness and the Soul, in such a way that over time the center of gravity within consciousness now becomes within the Soul, not the ego”. And as I have said: “Movement equals mutation and evolution. You move or you don’t grow.”The First Eclipse — September 7, 2025The first eclipse happens on September 7, 2025—a lunar eclipse at the full Moon, exact at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. What stands out is Ceres inconjunct the Sun in Virgo, which points to a sudden matter that must be handled in a personal and precise way. This draws attention to how you’re voicing discernment in the area where the South Node has been traveling. In evolutionary terms, South Node in Virgo with Ceres and Mercury carries karmic memory of over-analysis, self-criticism, and duty. The growth edge here is to practice discernment without punishment, to care for the body and voice in ways that liberate rather than constrain.At the same time, there’s clear support from Jupiter, which is trining and sextiling the nodal axis. This acts as emotional support, guidance, and even grace toward surrender. It emphasizes the possibility of becoming more whole while still honoring responsibility. With Venus inconjunct the North Node, a sudden shift may surface around creative value or self-worth, asking you to check in with your emotional body, your creative sense of value, and how you express it. In evolutionary terms, Jupiter trine the nodes often represents protection and opportunity. The soul is invited to trust a larger picture; the challenge is to avoid collapsing back into the Virgo worry and instead allow trust to expand the path forward.There is also a Yod, with the North Node and the Moon at the apex, and Mars and Venus in sextile forming the base. This alignment acts like a karmic turning point, emphasizing surrender and balance: how you care for individuality while opening to creative validation. With Mars and Venus involved, the pivot is evolutionary—balancing desire and action (Mars) with value and attraction (Venus). The North Node and the Moon pull the story forward, directing the soul toward trust and surrender rather than grasping at control or overemphasizing self-sufficiency.Alongside this, Uranus trines Pluto while Saturn and Neptune continue their longer passage through Pisces, with Vesta and Juno opposing in Scorpio. This backdrop shows collective transformation working in harmony with individual breakthroughs. But there’s also tension: Mars square Jupiter marks the first quarter square of their cycle. Mars here seeks to initiate—individually and in relationship—yet Jupiter insists that if emotional needs aren’t recognized and courage isn’t expressed on behalf of true individuality, compromise will collapse into imbalance. Evolutionary astrology frames this as a “crisis in action”: a decisive point where the soul must choose courage over concession, or risk repeating old dynamics.This square ties back to the Mars–Jupiter cycle seeded a year ago when they met in Gemini. At that time, the emphasis was on new ideas. Because of Mars’ retrograde, the growth has been delayed, and now the first quarter square demands action. The evolutionary task is to implement those ideas in a grounded way: to integrate, to build, and to reshape life structures without scattering energy or being overtaken by what you’d prefer to ignore. The crisis here is the shift from inspiration into embodied form, carrying forward only what has true value.While writing this, I realized how much was seeded in terms of values for me last summer: how I tapped into my Venus–Mercury retrograde last spring, and how this square is now enacting the action of material I have already embraced and integrated.The Second Eclipse The second eclipse happens on September 21, 2025—a solar eclipse with the Sun and Moon at 29 Virgo. What stands out is Venus at 2 Virgo squaring Uranus, echoing the themes seeded at the Virgo new Moon on August 23rd. One month later, Venus returns with urgency, asking: what are we valuing right now, and what truly needs to be cleared away? Venus becomes the focal point, conjunct the Vertex in Virgo, forming a Yod that places her at the center of karmic adjustment. In evolutionary terms, Venus in Virgo presses the soul to refine value with precision: cutting through what clutters and reorienting toward what liberates.Venus squares Vesta at 3 Sagittarius and squares Uranus in Gemini, while Mars at 29 Libra offers a temporary outlet. But Mars is also beginning to square Pluto, marking a third-quarter square in their cycle. In evolutionary astrology, Mars square Pluto at this stage is a karmic “crisis in consciousness”—a point where decisions can no longer be based on individual will alone but must be reoriented by collective forces. The soul faces mutation through tension, learning to act without domination or regression. This phase asks: how do you align your choices with the wider field of collective change, rather than repeat old individualistic patterns? Are these patterns revealing fear of movement, a clinging to decaying matter or situations instead of owning your authority? Check your guilt, your fear, your shame—and release them.The Sun and Moon at 29 Virgo, with Mercury at 5 Libra, form trines to both Uranus and Pluto. This creates a supportive backdrop for restructuring, reinforcing commitments made around August 23rd when new Virgo beginnings were first outlined. Now, with Saturn back in Pisces, the evolutionary demand is accountability. Look at yourself directly—body, mind, emotions, spirit—without bypass. At the final degree of Virgo, this eclipse insists on completing unfinished work: integration, discernment, and truth in daily life. The trines from Uranus and Pluto support deep, lasting change if the discipline is embraced.The wider field also includes Vesta and Juno, anchoring devotion and relational contracts. Their presence underlines that responsibility extends beyond the self—into the ways we honor commitments with others and with spirit. In evolutionary terms, a solar eclipse at 29 Virgo aligned with Uranus and Pluto is a turning threshold. The lesson is embodiment without bypass: fulfilling Virgo’s work of honesty, refinement, and service before stepping into a new cycle.Call me crazy, but I love confronting these challenges. In the past, I would be filled with adrenaline, pure fear. Now I wait for the signal: GO, move, go, go, go.The elephant in the roomWe are entering a passage where old habits and daily choices are dissolving, and the question is whether we can release control and lean into trust. Presence becomes the measure of maturity: responsibility over bypassing, showing up rather than turning away. There is support when we allow trust and nourishment to anchor us, even as moments of crisis demand courage and integrity in action. What we choose to value now, and what we refuse to bypass, determines whether this cycle becomes a true mutation or another repetition of the past.* What habits in your daily life are ready to be surrendered, and what new rhythms are asking to emerge?* Where are you tempted to bypass responsibility, and how can you show up more fully instead?* What source of trust or nourishment can you lean on when the pressure mounts?* What courageous choice is waiting for you right now — one that aligns you with integrity rather than compromise?* What do your current values reveal about the direction you are shaping for yourself?See you at the other side!!!Eclipses are here: they are portals, liminal places where one can connect to what has been almost forgotten. Let’s start from the technical part. Eclipses are the cross of the planes of the Moon and Earth’s orbits. A line of intersection is produced when two such planes intersect. This line converges the Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic, tropical zodiac) at two points (nodes), the ascending north and descending south nodes. Thus nodes are fictional points; physically they don’t exist. It is the trajectory of the orbit of the Earth and the Moon at which lines or pathways intersect or branch, a central or connecting point. Eclipses of the Sun and Moon can only occur when they meet (conjunctions) close to the nodes in longitude.During an eclipse there is darkness; something fails to appear. It seems as if the light of these two astral bodies which are in exact alignment near the nodes has been swallowed up by the dragon’s head. When the Moon and the Sun meet next on September 21st, 2025, it will be a solar eclipse: the Sun is overshadowed as the Moon absorbs all the solar power. Earlier that month, on September 7th, 2025, there will be a lunar eclipse, a full Moon overshadowed by the Sun.Unfinished business and growth potential. The Moon’s South Node reveals in abstract terms the perils that the passivity of subconscious memory stands in the way of personal evolution. The Moon’s North Node symbolizes the new potential of growth based on what has become conscious in the past, leading to transformation. We feel very identified with what our natal Moon represents, as it is the persona or ego image that is traveling through these nodes, from lifetime to lifetime. Pluto in the chart serves to point to the desire the soul has to evolve, the place one feels disempowered (whether it is conscious or not depends on other factors). The lunar nodes are how we have identified in each previous experience (other lifetimes, if you will). It is through these familiar memories that we identify with our emotions (Cancer/Moon) and where some of these memories have been crystallized (Saturn/Capricorn). The scope is to liberate ourselves from this conditioning (Uranus/Aquarius).The nodes move backward in relation to the moving direction of the planets; this is called a retrograde motion, completing one ecliptic cycle in about 18 and 2/3 years. The change of axis, or signs, occurs every 18.6 months (they are circling the tropical zodiac or ecliptic). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

NOTE: audio file for the book chapter starts at 11:01.254“The unexamined life is not worth living.”~Socrates (via Plato, Apology)Losing Friends. Does it hurt?This Saturday we have a new moon in Virgo and I want to share chapter 11.3 from my audiobook The Nature of My Reality that carries the title, Embracing the pulse of life: Losing Friends. Does it hurt? pages 144-150.I wrote that chapter very close to the Virgo new moon last year that happened on September 2nd, 2024. That lunation landed in my 8th house right on top of my natal Pluto at 11 degrees of Virgo, and it opened a cycle that unfolded through the long Venus and Mars retrogrades of this year. Those retrogrades shaped everything. Venus and Mercury retrograded from Aries back to Pisces in my second house back in April, reconnecting me to value. Mars in Leo retrograded to Cancer from the 7th to the 6th house and showed me how I use energy, how I work, how I embody, how I take care of the little things. Together they created the sacred ground for what I am facing now: anticipation of Pluto crossing my Ascendant around my birthday in 2026.Pluto across the Ascendant is a once-in-a-lifetime transit. It does not happen in one day, and it does not happen to everyone. It is a process of many years of shedding skin and becoming a new person. For me it began when Pluto entered my 12th house back in 2011. Since then it has been about bringing light to what lies in my unconscious, exposing hidden patterns, understanding the roots of relationships, and moving through individuation with integrity by embodying my own sense of value. It has been slow but it has been steady.This is why the last Virgo new moon matters so much. It was preparation. At the time Jupiter was conjunct my Venus in Gemini, Mars was about to connect to my North Node in Cancer, Saturn was transiting over my Chiron in Pisces where the North Node is right now in the second house, and Chiron was on top of my Mars in Aries in the third house. That structure of my chart was lit up: 8th house, 7th house, value, intimacy, wounding, healing, 2nd house. It was a threshold. Period.This year has been about relationship with the unconscious, with Pluto, and about preparing for the Ascendant passage. Pluto is also squaring my Jupiter long-term, and it started squaring my Sun and my Mercury. So this is going to be a few years of showing up as a new person with updated values and grounding myself in my own experience. Also very important has been the passage of the nodal axis on my 8th–2nd house axis, and Saturn and Neptune squaring my nodes have opened a window for me to deeply create an environment where outside feedback is no longer craved and outside validation is no longer needed. An inner space has shaped a vessel in motion that flows in trust. Yes, I know the image alone is vague and poetic, because I can only feel it.Now moving from that threshold into the present, I’m writing because tomorrow’s new moon in Virgo is the first one of this month, and the next will be on the 21st of September, and that will be an eclipse where Saturn is going to be in opposition at the last degrees of Pisces. I’ve been contemplating a lot this week what it means where I am and why I’m speaking of last year and the next—because I see time as a long-term arc. The passage of Pluto across my Ascendant is not going to happen from day one to day two. It begins with the first passage on my birthday in 2026, then it will hover back and forth on that critical point until finally entering fully into my first house in January 2028. So I’ve been contemplating longer arcs in my life to understand where I’m progressing.Uranus left Pisces, moving into Aries in March 2011. Neptune entered Pisces that same year, along with Chiron, which stayed until 2018. Jupiter did a brief stint in Pisces in 2022, expanding the themes there. The nodal axis was reversed approximately nine years ago, from November 12, 2015, to May 9, 2017: North Node in Virgo, South Node in Pisces. Neptune was joined by Saturn for the last three years, leaving briefly for Aries in the spring of 2025, only for both to return to Pisces for a few months this coming fall, until they finally make the much-anticipated conjunction at the archetypal degree of zero Aries—the reset where our individual potential can become more than just a dream. Pisces is the end of the cycle, the place where we all return to source, and that is what we are progressing to.So what am I talking about here? Well, one of the things I see is that this decade, that long decade, has given us a lot of pollution and lack of clarity, especially in everything that is labeled “spirituality.” I think there is a problem with that word. We all have a spirit incarnated in our body, so somehow we all live with spirit. What changes is the level of awareness. Calling yourself a spiritual person is an oxymoron. It is like calling yourself a physical person or a mental person, because in doing that you edit out something essential. This is very Virgo-like: separating and dissecting until you don’t see the whole. Pisces is the whole of everything, and Virgo as polarity is about separation, analysis, and critique. The whole scope is to be able to integrate both.It was also the decade known as fake it till you make it, and living in New York was the ground zero for that. That is when my life became disillusioned, and it accelerated toward the end of the decade when I took the impulse to leave the matrix and move to Miami Beach. As Saturn and Neptune traveled together through the last degrees of Pisces, it became obvious to me that I needed to integrate the polarity point, which is Virgo. And Virgo, where the South Node is right now, has created an incredible opportunity to revise, to refine, to discern, to integrate, and also to surrender to what it really means to be incarnated—spirit incarnated.What happened to me this week is that I realized: it is not so much why did I miss Bitcoin last decade, but yes, I was very much immersed in my spiritual and emotional awakening, with its delusion and confusion. I was focused there, and I completely missed the boat on the physical reality of what Bitcoin could mean. This is not good or bad. I don’t have regrets. It was just what happened. Other people got on the boat, and perhaps now they are trying to get on the boat of integrating their emotional self, becoming more holistic instead of continuing to fragment.So my thought with this new moon is that there is some uncomfortable relationship to Uranus, because it is going to square the lunation, and there will be a quincunx with Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn–Neptune in Aries forming a Yod, a finger of God. While Venus in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries, themes of value, courage, and movement are also activated. It raises an interesting question: what is it about your journey right now that is taking you to a different place? Where can you begin refinement—an upgraded version of yourself? It could be your mind, the way you relate to people, or the way you relate to the little details in your life. To find out look at the houses Virgo/Pisces land in your chart.That’s all I’m going to say. It’s a marvelous life. I’m super grateful every day for the possibility not only to have the kind of relationship I have with my own needs, but also to be supported by wonderful practitioners. So yes, losing friends hurts, but it would hurt more if I stayed in places, situations, or with people no longer aligned to my frequency.And now I am looking forward. The Virgo new moon in 2026 will arrive on September 10th, landing at 18 degrees of Virgo, exactly where the South Node of the Moon is right now, hovering for weeks, and in opposition to my Chiron. By then the North Node will have moved to Aquarius/Leo. Mars will again be in Cancer, and Pluto will have already crossed my Ascendant. Chiron will be in Taurus, starting to conjunct my Jupiter, and Uranus will be five degrees into Gemini, shifting toward the fifth house. Venus will be at zero Scorpio, Mercury at zero Libra.The question for me is: how will my life be a year from now? I can feel that it will mean a new relationship to the way I was clinging to feedback in all of my relationships, and having changed my perspective on so many matters in my life has given me the possibility, in a very joyful way, to see so much potential right now—not coming from the outside but coming from within. I have created a safe haven in the relationship I have with myself, and I have myself to be grateful for.And if you have planets at the very first degrees of any sign—mutable, cardinal, or fixed—there is an incredible activation that supports transformation through refinement, reflection, dissolution, and quick adaptation. And if your personal planets are at the beginning of Virgo: go ahead, be bold.Have a great week! Oh, and don’t forget—the reading of my chapter is coming after this note. Stay tuned.“Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.” ~ C.G. Jung, Alchemical Studies, Collected Works Vol. 13. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

“Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program.” — Milton Friedman.On August 15, 1971, Nixon suspended the dollar’s convertibility to gold, claiming it was “to stabilize the economy.” It was never reversed. This single move severed the Bretton Woods system and made the U.S. dollar a pure fiat currency, setting the stage for decades of monetary expansion and chronic devaluation.Happy anniversary, filthy, devalued U.S. dollar. Thank you for giving us everything that fiat erodes: health, food, medicine, education, savings, peace, family values, and infrastructure, all culminating in a decadent society. But that is why we Bitcoin.Having plenty of time these days, I have devoted time to create a sense of presence in my relational values, and I’m deep into the writing of my second book. I’ve also been toying with the idea of creating more content for future presentations and conferences, while balancing my artistic production with what is considered by many to be the most important innovation of this century: Bitcoin. So, there’s never a dull day for me, because I’m either writing about it, reading about it, listening to podcasts about it, questioning about it—it has really become a state of being.These days all roads lead to Bitcoin. Even if you are on the uninformed lane (those delaying understanding because they don’t yet feel the urgency) of trusting the government and leaders, eating their food that is full of poison, taking their Pharma without questioning, and allowing their children to get indoctrinated both in schools and universities, and breathing the air that is absolutely polluted with cloud seeding and what not, at the very end they are all talking about Bitcoin—silently, unknowingly, and unaware—since their cost of living has skyrocketed and they can’t seem to connect it directly to the structural failures of the central banking system: persistent inflation, endless wars, occupations and genocides, currency debasement, infringing on property rights, and credit expansion pushed to pathological extremes.And then you may ask, why should you care anyway? The price of Bitcoin—between $118,000 and $124,517 per coin these past weeks (btw it reached its all the time last Wednesday)—seems insane, and you give up, not knowing that you can buy a fraction of it, hold it, and watch its appreciation over time. Or you still feel that none of these things that I just recited are at all connected. As Mises says, “Every decision in life is an economical one.” Most people want a life that is full—one they can enjoy, with meaningful memories and real contributions to society. But instead, many are marching, painting their identities with pronouns and pigments that cover all spectrums, without tapping into the origin of all things. The origin of the duality between socialism and capitalism has been lost in time—slogans recited without understanding, the true meaning forgotten. No common sense, only anger and reactionary ways—the full difference between creativity and degeneracy. It is the lack of awareness of not seeing Bitcoin as a state of consciousness that leads to that uninformed experience.It is very interesting to see how engineers really get the structure of Bitcoin from the get-go. It has taken more time and trust in others for non-engineers like me to understand it from a more philosophical and consciousness point. I now get the whole structure of it because I did spend time questioning it, educating myself, and being in the presence of people who know—and I was unafraid of asking the right and wrong questions that offered the potential for humility and possible wisdom.Well, I got myself all wired up here, but won’t offer you an inch of what my thoughts are—yet. The book will have those. But being me, I’m going to leave you with a list of videos and books that tap into the current economic landscape that, as we breathe right now, is being absolutely reshaped. And the worst thing to do now is to keep ignoring it. Read my words: by the next year, hopefully there’s not a very big rug pull, but the opportunities that you have as a normal person are going to be dimming because you didn’t pay attention to what was going on.At the very end, I’m going to say it: you know, folks, if you ever want to learn seriously about Bitcoin, you can do it online, you can spend hours, but you can also ask me. If you have twelve hours of your time and a small amount of resources to engage, I can serve as a facilitator and teach you the curriculum of My First Bitcoin, so you will have all your questions answered and maybe you will stop being unaware in economic matters that are super important—because that will make you free. And then you enter the rabbit hole of understanding why health, food, medicine, education, and wars—everything—is connected to money.“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.” ~ VON MISESWe just had the Full Moon in Aquarius, and this is perfect action. If you don’t act according to your frequency—if you are still following a leader without understanding the complexity of all things—then you won’t be able to understand why this context is so important. But then again, you do you, and I’ll do me.Astrology Summary for Virgo New Moon August 23rd:In summary, this is an opportunity for initiating a new cycle of refinement that is grounded in discernment, for integrating new ways of thinking and being without losing the thread of emotional sovereignty, for restoring individuality as the basis for all negotiation and expansion, and for releasing the patterns that keep freedom dependent on external approval or collective structures. With Saturn retrograde re-entering Pisces, the definitions, boundaries, and commitments you hold now may lead you into situations that will need to be revised. The upcoming eclipses across the Pisces–Virgo axis will amplify this process, bringing events that reveal where refinement is required, where discernment has been bypassed, and where the truth you live by must be aligned with the reality you are actively creating.Current transits influencing this cycle:* New Moon at 0° Virgo square Uranus in Gemini* Inconjunct Saturn and Neptune retrograde at 1° Aries* Mars in Libra square Jupiter in Cancer* Venus in Cancer square Chiron in Aries* Venus in Cancer opposite Pluto in CapricornFrom Nixon’s fiat experiment to today’s inflation, wars, poisoned food, and collapsing trust—why Bitcoin is more than an investment, it is a state of consciousness.Resources (long list, take your time)History of Money & Foundations * The Creature from Jekyll Island (audio book) — G. Edward Griffin* The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, (audio book) by Eustace Mullins* Saifedean Ammous: The Bitcoin Standard - book presentation in Vienna, Austria May 2018* The Fiat Standard (lecture 3 FIAT technology) — Saifedean Ammous* Broken Money (video animation)— Lyn Alden* The Big Print — Lawrence Lepard What bitcoin did podcast * What Is the Problem? — Joe Bryan (available in multiple languages)Economics & Sound Money* Principles of Economics (Lecture 1: Human Action) — Saifedean Ammous* What Has Government Done to Our Money? (audiobook) — Murray RothbardFiat Failures* Fiat Food — Matthew Lysiak (The Bitcoin standard Podcast)* Fiat Medicine — Ahmad Ammous (what is money show)* Fiat Education How to Learn Like a Bitcoiner - Saifedean Ammous + Corey DeAngelis and Daniel Prince at Miami 2023 Bitcoin conference * Fiat Health: Chef Pete Evans: Radical Health, Radical Freedom (You’re the Voice Podcast)Macro & Contemporary Finance (reserves, lending, stable-coins, Bitcoin reserves)* Jack Mallers on Treasury Bonds, Stablecoins, and Bitcoin (Preston Pysh)* Preston Pysh — The Great Monetary Reset is here (You’re the Voice podcast)* Jack Mallers in his on podcast from Bonds to BitcoinPhilosophical & Consciousness Framing* Gigi — 21 Questions and Bitcoin is the Language of Time & Money* Parker Lewis — Bitcoin is not a hedge* Saifedean with Lex Fridman (4 hours — pivotal deep-dive)Bitcoin Mining (nerdy stuff)* Bob Burnett (Energy, Mining, Sovereignty)* Parker Lewis with Rob Warren from Bitcoin Park, on Mining Basics How Bitcoin Mining Machines Work This is a public episode. 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You know, when I was born, Uranus was in a balsamic relationship to Pluto. This is a generational imprint. That was the mid-60s, and it completed between 1965–1966. And what was also peculiar about it—they were both in Virgo, Saturn and Chiron in Pisces were making an opposition to this rare conjunction (it takes 140+ years for they to meet). That created a very special situation for the people who are right now entering into their 60-year-old moment.Dane Rudhyar wrote then: “What is happening today, as Uranus starts its new cycle of relationship with Pluto, is that the very foundations of man's collective mentality are being transformed; for Pluto represents indeed the planetary aspect of mind, the one mind of Man.”“Pluto, I repeat, refers to the collective mind of humanity. In a narrower sense it refers to some closely interrelated and authoritarian human groups... But when Uranus acts upon Pluto... Uranus does not allow Pluto, as it were, to pull everything to the bottom or core. Uranus periodically fecundates and always stirs up the realm of Pluto; and we are witnessing such a fecundation.” 1965 So let’s talk about this trine that we have right now. It’s the first time that we have a trine with these two planets after their 1965-66 new cycle while we’re living. Probably the time before this trine happened, it was a closing trine—was in the 1922s. The last opposition was in 1901: the structure of the world began to reconfigure. Nations emerged, empires fractured, ideologies clashed, and industry consolidated under new frameworks of power.But it has taken 60 years for Pluto and Uranus to create a trine as I spoke in recent articles about aspects. And they’re doing it: Pluto at the very beginning of Aquarius and Uranus at the very beginning of Gemini, both air signs. One is fixed—Aquarius—and the other one is mutable. So there’s this energy. It’s a supporting energy bringing new ways of doing things, while at the same time there’s a transformation and revolution in society.You see, Uranus is ruling Pluto that is in Aquarius, so they’re really supporting each other. So the question is: -where in your life do you feel that you are bringing some inner mental revolution? -And how is this going to be transforming not only your life but your place in society?(Pluto and Uranus in an opening trine signifies a maturation of the revolutionary cycle seeded in the 1960s. They are stabilizing vectors; air signs bring networked cognition, distributed innovation, and collective pattern restructuring. Aquarius sets the collective container. Gemini disperses the data. Uranus rules Pluto in Aquarius, so this trine is recursive, it supports a long-range synthesis of disruption into form.)Relational clarity and inner refinementAnd although these transits are not personal, they become personal now that Mars just entered Libra. We had Mars going through Virgo in the last weeks, joined the South Node of the Moon. It was initiating a way to look into the systems and the habits and the way our very complex mind edits out and edits in situations. It was all about initiating purity in the discernment and also calibrating obsessive ways of refinement.Now that it’s in Libra and in opposition to this Saturn and Neptune retrograding in Aries before they reenter Pisces, it is initiating a way how to create a balance between all these other subjects. So let’s say it is saying: hey, I’m an individual that wants to liberate myself from many things that I no longer care for, but how do I respond in relationship to others, in relationship to my needs, in relationship in general?And I can tell you that I’ve been going through that deeply. That’s why I’ve been trying to keep some silence and I’ve done some specific things not to be out there that much. And it’s going to be a retreat that I’m enjoying.An infinite array of options my friend!This grand trine between Uranus, Pluto, and Mars is offering that possibility of confronting how we are individually, as persons, starting a balance in our lives in response to society. Also, it’s sextiling that Mercury retrograde about to go station direct in Leo, that is also opposing Pluto. So it’s almost like the whole sky right now—it’s creating a perfect situation for recalibrating, rebranding, seeing things in a positive way and mostly as they are devoid illusions.(Mercury retrograde in Leo opposing Pluto supports deep inner reflection on self-expression, self-validation, and visibility. What do you need to say; not to impress, but to clarify authentically? Since January, we’ve been activating the same degrees, while Mars, the New Moon, Mercury, and soon Venus—all moving through Leo; have opposed Pluto in Aquarius, confronting each layer of personal expression with the pressure of the collective field. The area in your chart where Leo lies has been under steady fire—testing your courage, self-respect, and visibility. This moment is demanding that courage become embodied, that expression come from coherence. Each opposition has revealed where behavior still conforms to unseen systems of consensus and detachment—and where something more vital is ready to emerge. Be based!)There’s no way that you can feel that you have no options, because if you still feel that there’s no options in life, my God, you’re not doing the work. Because there’s so many—plenty—but they depend on your action. They depend on the capacity you have to look inside of yourself for the things that are there for you to evolve.So look at your triggers and look at how you respond to your triggers. And that’s going to be the biggest invitation, the biggest window for this upcoming full moon in Aquarius that is happening on the 9th of August. The Moon says: hey, how do I identify the patterns? Because the Moon is going to be conjunct Pallas Athena. So how can I identify the patterns that are important for me to feel comfortable in society, with my group, my peers?It is squaring Vesta and Juno in Scorpio. So you got to look at the obsessive parts for your addictions. You’re creating too much devotion to the things you’re addicted to. And Ceres sextile in Aries is saying: you know, if you make a ritual about your individual needs, you may understand what they are.Now the Sun in Leo says: dude, we got to do this. We got to show up authentically. We can’t keep on copy-pasting other people in society. Like, mimicking is not the way. Life is not mimetics. Life is emanation.Ending cycles of approvalNow the last thing that I see about this beautiful celestial conjugation in the skies is that Venus—it’s approaching Jupiter in Cancer. Venus has been softening the way our values are needed. It’s in a balsamic relationship to Jupiter. Jupiter has not gone retrograde yet, but it’s creating an inconjunct with the full moon, a trine with Vesta and the North Node, and a square with Ceres.So Jupiter is expanding and making like an underline of what are those emotional values that you have been forfeiting, or fading, or letting go under the radar in order for you to feel okay in society.(Venus and Jupiter in balsamic relationship close a cycle of value inflation—asking you to decide what nurtures your emotional growth versus what simply maintains external approval. Jupiter’s trine to Vesta and the North Node supports purposeful devotion. The square to Ceres insists you re-parent yourself.)Ontologies That Dissonate[A living exchange with Robert Breedlove, August 2025]To close, I want to share a short exchange I had recently with Robert Breedlove in X, he is the host of What Is Money?—a channel where I was a guest close to a year ago. Robert often brings deep philosophical threads, and sometimes we resonate, sometimes we differ. This one is a perfect example of divergence rooted in value and ontology. There’s no attempt whatsoever to discredit his view, as I am using it to illustrate the current transit opportunities. His view represents the mimetic frame; my intent is stemming from resonance. This full moon is calling us into individuation: the awareness that some of what we still carry is conditioned by collective archetypes, as some of what arises is our direct emanation.It’s an individual voice, an individual path, versus one that is still under the umbrella of a collective. And I’m not criticizing the followers of Christ, and I’m not saying that my way of thinking is “the way” but I’m just putting out there an example of how these energies are just happening—so you understand the context of everything that I’ve written.@Breedlove22Christ is King. This isn’t about a man on a golden throne barking orders at his subjects. It’s about who we choose to imitate. 🧵@Breedlove22Humans are mimetic. We become who we imitate. Every personality is a patchwork of the people we’ve watched, admired, and copied.@Breedlove22Christ is King because He is the perfect model for imitation. The archetype of how to live, respond, suffer, forgive, judge, and love.@Breedlove22He met betrayal with compassion. Injustice with righteous indignation. Sin with agapic love. No revenge. No resentment. No hatred. Just strength, honor, and divine grace.@Breedlove22Without a primary mimetic model like Christ, we lose our compass. We imitate the loudest voices instead of the wisest. And we drift…@Breedlove22Christ gives us a standard of action. By imitating Christ, we develop sound moral, legal, and economic standards for optimal human cooperation. Christ is the pinnacle of all human value hierarchies.@Breedlove22So when we say “Christ is King,” we really mean: He is the north star of human action. He is the standard. The model. The Way.In a mimetic world, who you imitate shapes your soul and blazes your path through life. Choose wisely.@BravoMonikaI understand where you’re coming from. You’re standing in the lineage of Girard; mimetic theory, the idea that we model our desires on others, that we become what we imitate, and that Christ, then, is the highest pattern to reflect. I see that clearly.But we are ontologically distinct, because I don’t see human beings as fundamentally mimetic. I see us as individuating fields of consciousness.In your ontology, Christ is King because He is the perfect model for imitation.In mine, Christ is not a model to imitate. Christ is a frequency to emanate.You speak of following the archetype, the pattern, the external compass.I speak from the space of becoming the pattern itself—from inner alignment, from source, from direct knowing.I don’t arrive at Christ through copying. I arrive by incarnating the divine impulse as it moves uniquely through me.And I believe that is the Second Coming: not a return from above, but a revelation from within.So while you see mimetic desire as the engine of humanity, I see it as the very mechanism we are here to transcend.You say we imitate to orient. I say we individuate to liberate. There must be room—there is room—for other forms of desire.Not the kind that reaches outward toward a model, but the kind that wells up from within, unbidden, sovereign, and true.Christ, for you, may be the highest example.But for me, Christ is not an example at all.Christ is the irreducible flame that each of us must tend in solitude and integrity.That’s why I can’t fall into “we are mimetic.”Because I’m not.I’m free.And freedom is the signature of Christ.@Breedlove22And yet, the words you use to express yourself here you too learned through imitation.@BravoMonikaOf course, language is learned through mirroring. We all begin life by imitating. That’s not the debate. But imitation is a phase, not a purpose.Mimicry may shape the outer form, but it says nothing of the origin of the expression.Once language is acquired, it becomes a vessel.What fills that vessel—tone, timing, truth—is not mimicry. It’s emanation.This is what artists know.We don’t express to repeat, not to imitate. We actually express to reveal that which is hidden.The Word didn’t become flesh through imitation; it became flesh through Incarnation.The Logos moves through me, that is not something I copied nor imitated.Authenticity is liberation in embodied form.That’s why I stated at the beginning: this is a different ontology.Perhaps more mystical—but fully embodied.The Logos Remembered: From Incarnation to IndividuationThis exchange with Robert is revealing the current astrology beyond language. What I’m speaking to is what Uranus trine Pluto is activating right now. This moment is about metabolizing our experiences into frequency. My words are shaped by that transit: a movement from inherited patterns through self-recognition into collective emanation. When I said that imitation is a phase, not a purpose, I was expressing what Saturn and Neptune in Pisces are dissolving—old spiritual syntax that no longer holds. Illusions are visible. Courage belongs to those who act upon seeing it. By affirming my transitory experience of mimicry, I let experience speak through me. When I spoke of the Word becoming flesh through incarnation, I was channeling my inquiry into the great gospel of John—an inquiry that led to my 2014 commission by the Vatican for the 2015 Venice Biennale, where I created an interactive installation entitled Arche-types: The sound of the Word is beyond Sense, that led me deeper into resonance, far from pure logic. I was also feeling the square between the Aquarius Moon and Juno and Vesta in Scorpio. That aspect brings clarity to where we’ve been bound by projection. But what I’m naming is the Logos remembered. The quiet frequency of Venus and Jupiter closing a value cycle in Cancer feels emotional, memory-based, and cellular. What I called Christ is a frequency that emerges in me—like the Buddha, Lao Zi, and all the great masters before me who have taught me about love, compassion, wisdom, and humility. I know I am not mimicking nor an empty vessel. I did that while growing up and learning. Carl Jung, in Aion, speaks of the second coming of Christ as a becoming during an individuated path.This differs from mimetic theory as proposed by Girard, where Christ is seen as the archetypal model for imitation and transcendence of violence.AI, Addiction, and the Discernment of FrequencyEclipses are coming, and I’ve been doing sessions with fellow earthlings, helping them prepare for the upcoming September season—including also the February and March eclipses. As we move into a new paradigm, having the right tools and timing can make all the difference. If you feel called, I’m offering readings as a way to support that alignment.One last thing, because we're talking about the collective and individualism, and also because there's still a lot of confusion to be revealed with clarity—and because we are, as Breedlove says, mimetic—if we have not found our true voice, we're going to imitate. We're going to comply with certain kinds of orders.Now, this is a trend I'm noticing: many people are using AI as if it were a person, and they’re not understanding that what they’re bringing forth could make the distortion even bigger. I’m not saying this guy (Brandon Ross) is right or wrong, but I’ll include a few links here for you to dive in and make your own assumptions. I’m not here to tell you that my truth is better than yours. I’m just here. That’s it. Putting the things together.So this is one link. There’s another one from Gregg Braden—someone I’ve followed for 30 years—who is also talking about the dangers of defying or elevating AI as a god, which in my view is dangerous. I’ll include that you will be the judge.Then I’ll leave you with two other links. One is from the Leo King. He did a deep dive on an object in the skies that may or may not be alien vessel nor a comet: 3i/ATLAS. I liked his take. I’ve been listening to him, and he did a five-hour special I listened to. I have to say, he uses AI a lot—so he’s already inside of this nebulosa. I use AI a lot too, so I’m not saying AI is the devil. I’m just always thinking about what kind of relationship we have with people, situations, and things—and where we’re not seeing our truth. Where we’re becoming addicted, and where we’re giving power to the other. That’s what I’m saying.And last but not least, I’ll include a link from Clif High. For many people, he’s a conspiracy theorist—which, for me, is an honor to be called—because it’s about people who want to think for themselves. People who want to do their own research and find out what’s true based on their own design.That’s why I’m putting these examples here. listen with outmost discernment. It’s just: look: people are looking at reality in many different ways. So where is the difference between the individual, his or her authenticity, and where are we just mimicking the collective? That’s basically this full moon.Feel free to follow what draws your attention. Make sure to take a deep breath and understand your relational values. I’ve been doing that the last couple of months and I have to say—it’s been of so much value to create my own presence.But again, I cut the silence short because I feel that this full moon is full of amazing nuggets. It’s giving you the support to create a deeper relationship to your wants, your needs, and those things you’ve been addicted to for a long time.We don’t need to agree, that’s not the point. We need to create dialogue so we can evolve through our own perception—and the perception of others.Have a great, great full moon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Even if this truth is ugly, its more important to be aligned that to be faking pretty lies.Because at the very end, my fear is to abandon myself again… that is not going to happen….Yep, I feel like staying silent and being present.Though many, many insights and realizations have been surfacing in my consciousness,as I navigate them, this week feels precious in its silence.I do have a gift—a humming gift.Be well, you all.P.S. I recently discovered that empty space is not void, and it is also absent of abandonment.I’m enjoying the feedback of inner sound. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

NOTE: There’s a new section on my blog called MONIKA IN DIALOGUE. Alas, I haven’t yet figured out how to make this section send emails to current subscribers—so I’m posting the link for now. Bear with me until I figure it out… (I will, for sure).This week is a good anniversary for me. On July 30th, when I will possibly drop this newsletter, I’ll be celebrating five years since I moved from New York City (Williamsburg), after 27 years, to Miami Beach without knowing what was going to happen. Yes, yes, we were in the middle of the craziness. It had been a couple of months—or three—since I was in New York and unable to go out and lead a life of tranquility, because not only had the whole collective kind of collapsed into this nervous breakdown and fear about dying, but there I was already taking care of my body.In order to keep my immune system sound, I had started a protocol detoxing my body from alcohol—not heavy drinking, but I would enjoy a good wine here and there. But that starts adding up in your liver, your gallbladder. So I did a protocol, very intense, where I lost 35 pounds. I mean, I could not tell I had 35 pounds more—they had been adding up through the years.Anyway, I did the cleanse that took overall approximately six months. I moved here—here is Miami Beach—and just trusted that all will align, and it did! And here I am, celebrating. This week I’m also contemplating what exactly is coming to a close, especially in light of the current astrology. There’s Mars being around the South Node of the Moon in Virgo, and the Moon is there today.How am I really embodying this clearing, this flush that I’m doing with many things in my life now?I’ve been feeling sometimes a little bit sad, but it’s a kind of sadness that relates more to closing cycles than literally me crying about it. It’s just acknowledging that there’s a big cycle that has just finished.Right now I’m walking over the bridge—Venetian Islands. I started in the last four months to do a very deep protocol on relating to my body in a really different way. Virgo, sixth house, relates to the habits, the little things that you’re not seeing—especially when you are stagnated.Stagnation. What about it? In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), stagnation relates to the lack of movement and the lack of circulation in the blood. Therefore, when you stagnate and the circulation doesn’t flow, you feel lethargic, digestion is not flowing, you feel tired, and in a way, you start accumulating anger, because the liver and gallbladder’s energy regulate the emotion of anger. And anger is a yang energy that wants to come out, no matter what.I’ve been working on that, and this week I noticed it even more because the stagnation was very deep. Therefore, these are sort of relational activities that I’ve been doing—I had to go deeper. I added more red light therapy. I added smooth movements in my body that include hypopressives and some fascia movement, brushing, and vibrational plate with humming. All very subtle, coordinated with long walks, short swims, and deep, deep, deep meditations and contemplations.I decided to start again Bob Monroe’s Gateway Experience from the beginning and go up in crescendo. Having practiced it since January 2024 and seen enormous results, I am being slightly more intentional in scope, aligned with my frequency as I comprehend dimensional relativity. So instead of formulating a plan of action, I am slowly in alignment through instinctual magnetism and intentional emotional wavelength resonance.The next month, we will have two eclipses on the 7th and 21st of September, and Saturn goes back to Pisces. Uranus stations retrograde, and much later Neptune goes back to Pisces. We’re going to start having horror images of all the things that we forgot to do before the big changes come in. The deadline for all the changes is February 20th, 2026, but that doesn’t mean that you’re going to start working on that on January 2026.This is the moment to actually look into what’s stagnated. Try to make a routine or a habit that will be very wholesome for your kind of frequency that needs to be realigned in your life.The other thing I want to say: 2006 was the last time the nodal axis was in the same place (Virgo/Pisces). I have to say that I went through a lot of cleansing back then—a lot of fasting, a lot of understanding the edges of my body. I believe Saturn was in Leo, going through my sixth house then. Now we have Jupiter in Cancer, same house. So I don’t have to go through extreme cleanses. I don’t want that in my body anymore. I just want to have an expansion of this frequency of caring. But it comes from a more adult and responsible way. The discipline is there, but it’s not this blind discipline that is asking for more than it should. It’s more like a wise discipline that knows how to nudge this energy.⸻Reflection and ReleaseIf you look back into different kinds of periods—first, five years ago—it’s the end of July 2020. Had you already figured out that everything that was creating the tales was designed to fulfill your fear to such an extreme level that you would comply? Had you already figured that out, or were you still in fear mode, hoping that there would be a cure you would take no matter what? Because for you, the freedom of traveling or just being—going socially to clubs or restaurants—was more important than retaining the real freedom of your body, the property of your body.Did you realize that then, or did it take you another year, another set of vaccines, boosters, etc., another round of getting sicker without understanding why? Are you still—which I don’t think—if you’re still in that loop, you wouldn’t be reading me. So I’m going to skip it. I don’t think that any reader who has brought awareness in the last five years—waking up from the numbness and this program that we’ve been on since we were born—I don’t think they’re in that loop anymore. I don’t think they would be reading this, for my intention is always to attract the souls that can interact with my frequency at that specific moment.So that’s one of the questions.Now, the next question is: What was going on in your life mid-2006 through 2007? What was it about the purge that you were doing? Uranus conjuncted the North Node in May 2006, in the same area where the North Node in Pisces is transiting now. I did get a breakthrough then. Did you?Now let’s look at where this South Node is falling in your chart. In my case, it falls in the eighth house. So for me, it’s really about releasing—eighth house—all these things in a way that I merge with it and then I evolve. It’s a very full frontal release—not with fighting—but merging with it, understanding it fully, being transformed, and having a real metamorphosis in the sole act of awareness. Because what I want is to evolve at all costs. Mercury retrograde in Leo, which rules the South Node, is asking how I relate creatively to all these new habits.If you’re a Virgo rising and this axis is in your first and seventh houses, you’re releasing the perfectionism that shaped your identity—the habits that made you feel worthy, but now feel like costumes. Mercury retrograde in Leo here asks: can you love yourself when the system you built breaks down? Can you release control and become more creatively attuned to who you are becoming?If you have this in your fifth house, the release is around how you’ve measured your creativity—especially through service, results, or comparison. You may realize your gifts have been managed instead of expressed. Mercury retrograde in Leo asks: can you play again? Can you move toward joy, not just obligation?If it’s in your tenth house, you’re releasing the image—the way you’ve worked to be seen. The performances that earned recognition but cost you energy. Mercury retrograde in Leo here is burning through the old architecture of approval. You’re being asked to speak from source—not from structure.So I’m not going to go through the whole houses, but you see—this release or this realization has more to do with the kind of awareness that comes from deep observation, at times analysis, and having the right mindset to tap into what is happening. What is it that no longer aligns and it I not working anymore?And Mercury is retrograde in Leo right now, ruling that South Node in Virgo. Soon it will meet the Sun. It is asking for inner combustion, about letting the mind burn off what’s stale. It’s about releasing mental structures that used to give you pride but now just repeat. When Mercury RX meets the Sun, it renews—and in Leo, that renewal comes from courage. From choosing the way you want to see it. From reordering your rituals with heart.⸻As Federico Faggin said in an interview reflecting on his shift from physics to consciousness research:“Consciousness cannot be a property of the brain. What was clear was that consciousness must be fundamental.”This comes from Chapter 8 of Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism, where Faggin describes his realization that awareness is not something generated by the brain—it is the ground of being in which experience arises.That’s the frequency you’re listening for now, a recognition. And that’s where this next part begins:What is the plan?Since Mercury is still retrograde, and we have Saturn retrograde, Neptune retrograde, Pluto retrograde, and eventually we’re going to have Uranus retrograde and Jupiter retrograde—but for now, this is the reflection to be done for the next six months:Will you take some time to discern what are the things that you found very confusing and very challenging since the beginning of the year? Where you felt misaligned? What was the part you couldn’t see clearly? What was it about it that made you feel that you were powerless?Now, while you do that, also look at the parts where you were able to find the discernment—to look at things as they were—and you actually created an action to leave that state of stagnation.Now, because we’re going to go back to a familiar place that we are not going to love that much—because we thought we already conquered the other state—this is actually the best time to look into: if you were to do it again, how would you do it this time?Remember: these are frequencies to tune into, like radio stations. Becoming aware of your breath, your sensations, and your thoughts will support opening up a more aligned momentum.How would you refine those ideas? How would you refine that movement? How would you arrive at a resonant state?And once you have that, you can actually create a strategy where—if you fall into fear, if you fall into fogginess, if you fall into the collective blob—you become an observer of those thought processes that tune you back into chaos. You will find a way of practice, something that has kept you standing in the last few months. Whether it’s meditation, exercise, journal writing—I don’t know, I don’t care. Find something that will anchor you.By the time the tides go back into high tides and low tides, and things seem to be moving in ways that we don’t want—while visibility is negative—you will remember that the equilibrium that you find is part of a process of realigning with your frequency. A refinement.And then, by the time everything goes direct and February 20, 2026 arrives—with Neptune and Saturn meeting at 0 degrees of Aries—that’s the beginning of a new paradigm. And you will know it.So: get ready, get dirty, go for it.Just so you see the scale of what’s happening—both Neptune and Saturn are retrograding back into Pisces. This is the last wave. The last return to the formless before the spark of Aries. The eclipses on September 9th and 21st are beyond just moon cycles—they’re closures. Saturn will be conjunct the North Node. That doesn’t happen every time. That’s maturation calling your name.Whatever is dissolving now is not meant to be held. Trying harder is an oxymoron. This is about releasing the illusion that you ever had control over that storyline. You’re going back to source to remember that your form, your will, your individuation has to be built differently now.Let the wave pull you back. Let the ending be complete. And when the time comes to move forward again, you won’t be guessing. You’ll know—for you will be vibrating in your own frequency, if you are truly following your design.Dimensional alignmentThis is a dimensional alignment taking place. Uranus entering Gemini initiates a seven-year upgrade of perception, language, signal, and design. At zero degrees, Uranus is raw intelligence. The mind is being rewired to receive, and it could come as jolts of awareness.It’s about opening up your frequency into other dimensions where you are going to be able to align with your design—not from your mind, but from elsewhere. From the electromagnetic fields that allow movement between dimensions. This is about evolution and mutation. This is about your purpose in this life as an individual. What are you bringing forth? Why are you of service?The sextile from Saturn and Neptune in Aries—both retrograde—is a coded support system. For the structure, Saturn, and the illusion of what is possible, Neptune, are now internalized. They’re on reflect mode. This is about self-anchored alignment. About synthesizing the one you already are—that individual that you came to be.Pluto in Aquarius trines Uranus, where mutation becomes visible. An embodied experience: the future dimensions can be felt first before fully experienced. The anti-vertex involvement brings a karmic window—chance meetings, old threads, unexpected messengers who reveal what still needs to be released and what now is being invited in. Mars at the Virgo–Libra edge initiates a new pattern with a lot of discernment. This is a clear choice where the fire is mindful.This entire post is tracking one deep arc. It is about cleansing, about awareness, about realignment, and about preparation.And are you aware that you are at that threshold? If so: enjoy. 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Me, Me, Me, MeSo the other day during the session I was having with Mark, I was telling the story—reminds me of my mother, but it reminds me more about how I relate to myself through others. And I have Leo ruling my seventh house. What does that mean?I spoke last week about relationships, so: relationships are ruled by the sign that is on the Descendant.So the way I relate to others, in a very Leo way, it’s all about my self-validation. It’s about shining in the relationship, or as my mom would say: me, me, me, me, or in Spanish: yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.I think she was probably the first person, along with my father, that witnessed that my relationships were very self-centered. And as I said last article, I use the surface of a relationship—something, a person, or thing—to reflect and to project an image that I want to see, so I can integrate a part of myself that is on the other side. And once it’s integrated, that’s the goal.But sometimes, still, even knowing all this, I would project something that I feel is lacking—or that I have in excess. Like, for instance, I’m very critical about something, and then I just realize after a while that, oh boy, I’m just speaking about the same feature—but I have it, but I have not integrated it. That’s why I see it in the other.Anyway, let’s go back to 2004, probably 2003–04. I had started doing a lot of meditation, and I had found teachers, and I was in this joy trip of like, wow—silencing my mind is something I didn’t even know you could do. So I was enjoying it.But as much as I was silencing my mind with all these Buddhist meditations and insight meditation practices, I started understanding what the Buddha said about, you know: first become aware of your breath. Then become aware of the felt sense. I want to talk about that felt sense later, because I don’t think I really understood that until later on, when I got into the work of Gabor Maté.Because it was very abstract for me—to take care of my senses, or to pay attention to practice. And then it was like: be aware of your emotions. And that was where I was refocusing, because that was the main reason why I started asking some teachers to guide me that way—because I was very emotional—driven by my emotions. Since I was little, I didn’t have any distance between them and what was happening. I just didn’t know how to respond. I was always reactive.And mostly with the Moon in Scorpio—emotions are very, very extreme. They’re like either: oh yes, or oh no. There’s nothing in between. So it made me very radical about many things.So I’m doing these meditations, and I start quieting my mind, and starting to understand my emotional body. What was the practice? The process was like, you know: focusing on the breath cycle. And then—I’ll say it again—I did not understand very well the felt sense. I kind of knew what they were talking about, but I did not experience it. Because I would jump immediately to the emotion, and I would stay with the emotion. But I would label it, like: anger. Anger. This is the way it feels to be angry. That was it.But even just doing that for a while made me acquire so much insight about what was going on. So I started getting very curious about how I was so reactive. And one day I decided to do an exercise. And there was no social media at the time, only email—the way you connected to people that cared for you.So I remember I just picked like 20 people around my life—whether they were people I worked with or dealt with, or family or friends—and I decided to ask them. I remember the subject line was: “I will never ask for anything, and this is the only favor I will ever ask for. So feel free to do something about it, but if you don’t want to do it, just don’t do it.”So I wrote: “Dear blah blah blah, I don’t know if you know, but I’ve been doing therapy for a while, and I’ve also been doing meditation, and this came up to me and I want to do this exercise. I want you to tell me, with all your honesty, what are the three things that you think are my strengths, and what are the three things that you think are my downfall. You don’t have to explain much, you just have to label them. And I will really appreciate it. I will not respond to this email. I will probably delete the email afterwards, because all I want to see is—I want to see how I respond to that. Thank you very much. Blah blah blah.” Sent the email.I got a lot of responses. And this is where I learned that when people respond to you or react to something you say or do—it’s not about you. It’s about them. Because they’re projecting something on you. it is about how they relate to the question.But hear me out. This was fun.So I got a friend that just responded like: “What’s wrong with you? You’re getting me very worried. Why are you asking this type of question?” And I was just laughing, saying like: wow, this person doesn’t want too deep [lol]. But hey, you know, that was his response. It was a he BTW.Then I had a removed cousin—that she called me up, and she’s like: “Are you okay? Maybe you should go to a real psychologist, like a real psychiatrist. Maybe they should give you pills because I think you are a little bit derailed.” And I was like: okay, thank you.Then I had the friend that I thought we were okay—she just used this space to tell me all the things that she hated about me. But the email was pages long. So she had waited for an invitation from me just to tell me everything. And hey—whatever. I get it. I realized she actually hated me more than she loved me. And the way that—whatever she was saying—it wasn’t that it was right or wrong. It was like: wow, that was intense.So I did not get into a confrontation. She actually wanted a confrontation. But I said I was not going to reply, and I never spoke about it. So I probably just gave her the space to say whatever she wanted to say, but she didn’t have the guts to say it to my face, so she used the mail for that. Whatever.And so on and so forth. So I had that.But one person who didn’t reply—well, she was not very good at emails—was my mom. So I asked her. And I was having vacation with her. So she wrote on a little piece of paper, and she was laughing and laughing and she was giggling. And then she gave it to me, and it said three words. It said: yo, yo, yo, In English: me, me, me, me.I looked at her, and she looked at me, and we started giggling. And she said: “That’s all I remember Monika. Since you were born, it’s all about me, me, me, me, me, and this is no different.”And I was like: wow. Wow. This is the way she sees me. She sees me as very self-centered—which could be true. Because hello, I’m speaking about me all the time. This blog is all about my perception of my life.Lots of answers pointed to the same thing: my greatest strength was also my downfall. Like, I’m very intense and I never give up—so I always get what I want. On the positive side, I’m a go-getter. On the negative, they saw it as very intense energetically. (like Too much, I’d suppose.)So let’s share the story, and we’re going to talk about that kind of perception—and how our embodiment is sometimes more analytical. Let’s say you have a Moon in Virgo, so you start saying things aren’t working. You have a Moon in Gemini, and your mind is jumping here and there and you could be very funny. Or you have a Moon in Aries—and I mean, if you thought Scorpio was all about me with extreme intensity, Aries doesn’t even know that there’s other people in the room. Forget about it. It’s all about them.But in a different way, because—I guess that I’m speaking about my seventh house ruled by Leo in my chart. And just the way I interact with others—I make myself the center of the conversation. But I’m also curious about others. So I’m not just all about me. But I guess that my mom saw me like that.My mom had her Moon in Virgo. So she was very critical about anything that I would tell. She would usually come and tell me the wrong stuff. She very rarely said something good. And this was something that created a rift in our relationship, because I would say: “Mom, how come when I’m doing good stuff you don’t tell me?” Same responses I got from the headmaster of my school many times. It’s like, “Why should I praise you when you do good deeds?” And I would go like, “But why do you only yell at me or call me out when I do wrong things?” And they both agreed: integrity is something you should just have. Otherwise, it becomes about morality—and then you're just waiting to be called out.And I think I got it after a while. I was like: okay, it is more challenging to do good than bad, but it’s worth it. So I was looking for attention—any attention, any validation. There was something amiss, and I would yearn for that sort of light to make me shine. My father’s death created a big void in my heart, and I was adapting as best as I could. It took decades to understand that the real light comes from within. New Moon in Leo- the creative fire shines There’s a New Moon in Leo on July 24th. That’s why I’m talking about me. My North Node is in the fifth house, which is represented by Leo. And I guess that for somebody who’s going in that direction—whether you have the North Node in Leo or in the fifth house, or you’re born with a Leo Moon or the Leo Sun, or you have the Sun in a very prominent part of your chart, let’s say the 10th house or in the seventh house—or the Sun in general—you just have to be aware: which is the part of yourself that wants to be validated, that wants to be seen, that wants to be listened to, that wants to be heard—that wants to be feel and be unique.Because the Sun is our light. And your Sun is your light. This is the place that shows your authenticity. But depending on our conditioning—on our parents and how they did their best to raise us in society—this is also the part where we get entangled, where we get upset when we don’t get our way, if that’s what we’re after.And so we can really start accommodating ourselves to try to fit. So you start losing your freedom and your identity from very early on, because you start looking around and see: oh, if I behave like this, maybe I don’t get that.So this is my journey. This is my North Node. And how have I been anchoring that? Well, I would always be trying to fit in. Yes—me, trying to fit in group situations. But that’s the place where I suffer the most.So nowadays, for instance, it’s not that I don’t like groups. It’s just—I choose very carefully how I want to be relating to people, situations, or things. Because I know that until I fully integrate it, there’s always going to be something missing. Somebody will say something about me, write something I don’t like. I don’t get picked for a job, like a commission. And right now I know better, so I don’t get reactive. I don’t take it personally, But it’s still a conversation with myself.Going back to the Buddhist meditations, where I was skipping the felt sense in the four steps: acknowledging the breath, acknowledging the felt sense, acknowledging the emotions, and then getting the insights—or the synchronicities, as Jung would call them. The felt sense was something interesting. I remember reading a book—or getting into this guy—his name was Eugene Gendlin. He wrote a book called Focusing. This was the first time I started understanding that emotions could be felt in the body. It’s a method called Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and it’s all about this idea of the “felt sense”—how the body holds a kind of inner knowing. But at the time, I didn’t have the tools to really get to that. I understood it logically, but I needed to practice it.Although I had a Taoist teacher-slash-practitioner where we would practice, and he instructed me how to do it—but there was a disconnection. I was so taken by my emotions since I was little that I didn’t have any distance between them and what was happening. So it took me years to kind of get into that.And I remember when I got into that—you know, the whole somatic practice—I was like: holy s**t. This is what I’ve been trying to learn for a while. But I was in my head. My head was racing. That’s what I was talking about last week. I was not embodying anything. I was just thinking, thinking, and labeling things, and feeling upset and angry. I was always very angry about not getting what I wanted, because I was trying so hard. But then I was not allowing the emotions to be in the body.So I do personally think that doing somatic practice is what really changed me so much. And this came not long ago. It became very evident with the work I did with Gabor. It took a while. Because before that—you can see—I’m all mind: blah blah blah blah blah, always, always thinking. And so the mind is racing, and it has a very different speed than the body. Because every time you have a New Moon in Leo, it’s like a new renaissance of how you want to embody this life in a way that is beautiful. It’s like: you’re beautiful. You’re so beautiful.“The Sun is the source of individuality. It symbolizes the power to become a self. In Leo, that power seeks to radiate, to create life out of its own substance, to give birth to forms that express its identity. But this giving must be pure, or the light will become consumed by its own shadow.” —Dane Rudhyar, The Astrology of PersonalitySelf-actualizationTo paraphrase a little bit my teachers: the fifth house is a creative principle where the Soul, in this journey, wants to self-actualize. This is relating to the need to become the conscious co-creator of one’s reality, as Jeffrey Wolf Green would say. This archetype that also includes the Sun and Leo reflects the urge to express what is inherently unique within us—to shine without needing external validation. And I think that this one is the most important, because when you still want the validation, you have not integrated your light. You’re still counting, you’re still responding—or rather, reacting—to what other people are saying. But until the Soul has evolved to the point where it’s inwardly secure in its own light, there’s a need to be seen, applauded, or validated by others.As the Sun is the source of our individuality, the power that it symbolizes is coming from wanting to integrate that as the self. So it’s about radiation—it’s to create life out of its own substance, to give birth to forms and express its identity. That’s why the Leo, fifth house, or the Sun relate to creative or artistic matters. It’s the fifth house of children, because children are the biggest creations that we can have—but also artistic endeavors. I have Venus in my fifth house and the North Node . So hello, artist here, writing here, look at me here—but I’m doing it for my own self-validation.Now, going back to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness: I was practicing Theravāda Buddhism at the very beginning, before I started really seriously working with Thích Nhất Hạnh or Thầy, who was more from the Mahāyāna tradition. I really loved the simplicity of the Theravāda, which is—if you go into hierarchies—it’s the one closer to the Buddha. It extends to Laos, Thailand. The Mahāyāna is what became Zen. You see it in Japan, in Vietnam, and now in America. So we have a lot of Zen influence, but also Theravāda.I used to have a teacher I really loved—and I still love her, even though I no longer relate to her in the same way. Her name is Tara Brach. I learned so much from her. Back then, they weren’t called podcasts yet; they were audio files on web pages. I would listen to her meditations daily, meditate to the sound of her voice, and follow her dharma talks. I did that for years.The practice was called Satipaṭṭhāna—the Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Theravāda Buddhism:Kāyānupassanā is the mindfulness of the body: the breath, the posture, the movement.Vedanānupassanā is the mindfulness of the feeling tone: pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral sensations—your felt sense.Cittānupassanā is mindfulness of the mind: emotional and mental states—anger, joy, confusion. You see—I jump to that all the time.Dhammānupassanā is the mindfulness of mental objects: categories like impermanence, hindrances, and truths. insights-This is what I was practicing. It’s a progressive structure. It starts with the body, then the sensation, then the emotion, and finally the meaning.But you see, because I was so overtaken by my emotions, I would start with the body and skip immediately to the emotion. Then I’d try to get to the meaning. God, I was racing, racing, racing.Bottom line: this practice gave me, across time, an understanding of my emotions and felt sense. It supported the realization that I was trading my authenticity for false security. But it was the somatic practice that brought the felt sense in touch with my wound of not being seen—and that led me back to a state of presence. How to Discern and See ClearlyIf you’re still caught up by the narratives that are fed into your brain, and you allow them to become your life, it is very unlikely that you can discern your perception of reality from what is being told. The question is: how do you discern? How do you see clearly?Although my answer might be biased because it is me speaking through my perception, it is about having as much possible education in how things work—and always starting with the money. Follow the money, and it will lead you to understanding how everything is so connected, and how much deception we have been unconsciously impregnated with.There’s no such thing as these people are good or bad. It’s just the way it is. This is the difference between duality and polarity.What I’m saying in this article is that if we keep our own authenticity, if we keep our own light, if we understand the real character of self-validation, we’re not going to go into a space of needing attention from others. And that’s when we get discernment. When you become sovereign and you have choices, then you don’t get confused. You are in tune with your frequency. We don’t see clearly because we are emotionally bound to a false frequency. The narrative doesn’t just shape our thoughts—it shapes our sensations. This is why Barbara Hand Clow’s writing about the difference between the physical and emotional dimensions of perception is so precise. She’s not speaking about something far away; she’s speaking about the emotional body.In the physical dimension, our attention is ruled by time, emotion, survival, and repetition. Our bodies hold cellular trauma that hasn’t been metabolized, and the repetition of those wounds makes us loop. That’s why clarity isn’t a spiritual quality. It’s an embodied one.Clow writes:“We are tuned to the physical dimension through the limbic brain, where the core experiences of birth, early emotional memory, and survival imprint the basic beliefs of the individual. These become difficult to access without going into the emotional field.”In the emotional field, the emotional body begins to loosen; frequency becomes a way of reading the field, not reacting to it. She says:“The emotional field is primarily the realm of the emotional body, where unresolved experiences are stored and released… Until these emotional polarities are balanced, our perceptions will be split.”This is the distinction between polarity and duality. Polarity holds both ends. Duality separates them—and demands we choose sides. But frequency doesn’t lie. When we attune to it with presence, breath, and responsibility, we stop projecting and start perceiving.And this is where the question of discernment is rooted. Not in mental knowledge, not in opinion, not in belief. But in the clarity of what the emotional body reveals—when one is not seeking to be seen.Leo represents the Soul’s urge to create from the joy and abundance of the divine within. It is the field where one becomes a conscious co-creator of reality. But when this energy is blocked—by early restrictions or lack of feedback—it creates a deep grievance: nobody sees me, nobody cares. BOOO HOO HOO. The Leo archetype stands for the supreme expression of the ego of the individual. Here, the development of ego reaches its fulfillment through creativity and self-actualization, understood as the conscious emotional body.Ego as in perception. If someone is still chasing applause, they haven’t integrated their light. The idea of ego death is b******t. What’s needed is emotional awareness—because until a person is grounded in their own felt sense, they’re just drifting.So the next phase becomes clear: the supreme expression of ego. Again: ego here is the conscious emotional body. This is the sense of self that becomes aware of emotional responses, of how reality is perceived—reactively or responsively.When people say “this person has a lot of ego,” they may simply be seeing someone who isn’t conscious of how emotions are being felt, or even passing through the body. This is an electromagnetic current that must be acknowledged. It must be recognized so that life is not navigated by knee-jerk reactions.But this is what is meant by ego. It’s not something to be killed. The notion of “ego death” is a distortion—a misuse that circulates in many current teachings.Many teachers right now are trapped in their own bias. They are pushing thought over presence, mixing modalities out of fear.One public example is the guru like- Aubrey Marcus. The issue isn’t him personally—it’s that the frequency he’s vibrating in is confused. Too much plant medicine. Too much outside attention. Not enough felt sense. Not enough attention to what is actually moving through the body. Not a single space for integration! So what’s reflected back is that same confusion and chaos. The people he attracts, the teachers he aligns with—they mirror the same distortion. And that’s his issue to work through.This is what self-validation without clarity looks like.There are other teachers too—ones once followed—that now speak from fear, even as they call it truth. And no, that’s not it.The best teacher is the one who has done the work. And very few have. and that includes this writer—are not practicing it 100% of the time. That’s why this blog is an open notebook. To track what’s working, and what isn’t.Barbara Hand Clow says:“The bifurcation of particles and the existence of antiparticles mirror the human tendency to live in duality instead of polarity, which causes people to be violence prone. People annihilate the people who most closely mirror their own behavior, just as particles and antiparticles annihilate each other when they meet.”She names this within quantum mechanics and the emotional field. She talks about how our split brains receive frequency and how perception is conditioned through electromagnetic translation. She makes clear how the emotional body is a field of reception. When it’s manipulated, people can’t access their own clarity. She writes:“Once we are cut off from the emotional field, we can be manipulated through it. The Global Elite use the lower astral plane to feed fear into the collective field.”I brought this up to clarify something important. The emotional body holds memory. This is what Mark Jones also writes about when he says:“This leaves a residual post-traumatic stress that can be carried over from a prior life without even having a significant current-life trauma to trigger it.”He’s naming that there is emotional fragmentation carried through the Soul. There is a tension between the structures we’ve internalized and the creative access we still have.He writes that we struggle to identify and meet our own needs in the ways we could before the trauma. The memory is still active in the emotional field.The Buddha laid out the foundations: breath, sensation, emotion, insight. That’s what I’ve been practicing. That’s where discernment starts.Polarities to integrate: It’s interesting because it’s in the fifth house that we self-validate. That we give ourselves the light we need in order to feel creative. Now, when we project into the polarity—that is Aquarius, Uranus, the eleventh house—this is the collective. These are the peers. This is the future. And when there’s no real grounding in how we feel connected to our own needs, when we don’t understand the difference between merging with the other intimately or staying with ourselves, we might create a tension between our need for validation and our relationship to what others are thinking.So having an understanding of how this axis works is important, because Uranus—or Aquarius—offers the liberation of the frozen Leo wound. And that wound? That’s what we carry in the nervous system. That’s what’s held in the long-term memory of the body.Mark Jones describes Uranus as holding memory beyond time. The trauma is there, but it’s not always visible. Saturn has crystallized it. Uranus disrupts it. It’s the moment the shock hits and you finally feel what you couldn’t access before. And once that happens, you begin to perceive differently. That’s why trauma is the antithesis of Leo. Because when you’re in trauma, you’re not in the present. You’re in reaction. You’re in defense. You’re fractured.To quote the good old Gabor Maté: when we give away our security, we lose our authenticity.So it’s important to look at what we need in order to stand our ground and be creative. Because once you are following your own authentic self, the collective is going to receive whatever it’s going to receive; but you’re not checking how many likes or dislikes, or how many people are being mean to you, or whether you’re invited to the most amazing party. Who cares. Really: who the F&K cares.When you’re truly in your fifth house: when you’re in Leo, or your Sun: you don’t need other people’s light to be lit.And right now, we are seeing so much distortion in the outside world. I’m not going to name names or talk about any files. But I’ll say this: in order to understand what’s going on, we cannot focus on the fogginess or confusion. We have to zoom out. Become more Uranian. Step into observation. Because there are so many threads connecting; but the most important one is this:Your emotional body is deeply connected to the collective emotional field. If you’re not grounded in your own nervous system, you’re going to be swept away. You’re going to be adrift. And the last thing I’ll say is this: I’ve been doing a practice for the last six months that’s really helping me come back into the body. Polyvagal work. Hypopressives. Humming. Chanting. Vibrational tone work. Breathing exercises. I’m tuning. I’m tuning. I’m tuning my frequency into the right dial.That’s how you see clearly. That’s how you start to discern.K ickstarterSo this New Moon is a kickstarter to the kind of life you would like to embrace creatively: honoring your spark and validating it from within, using no masks or personas. Courage is intrinsic, and joy is the only way. The New Moon opposes Pluto in Aquarius and squares Chiron in late Aries on its own planetary South Node. Keywords: courage to take the space needed to be authentic, by allowing the transformation to emerge from the confrontation of old ways that must give in to a abundant, plentiful experience on Mother Earth. Rejoice, Earthlings: all dimensions are part of this beautiful physical experience if we give space to the electrical magnetic fields of instincts and emotion to then embody the architecture of what we most value: creation. This is a public episode. 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PreambleI believe that the real changes of 2025 are not going to come from the outside. Although the outside world seems very surreal, and at times crazy; and many times like it doesn’t make sense, what I’m starting to understand is this: the beginning of the year was Mars–Pluto opposition, Venus and Mercury retrograde conjoined, the first batch of eclipses in Pisces and Aries, with Saturn and Neptune in the mix and squaring Jupiter. The beginning of the year brought not only confusion, but also a wave of external deception—distorted narratives, mixed signals, misplaced trust—all of which served as mirrors to show us where we can get grounded for what is there to come.And every single thing I’ve been talking about this year—what I’m starting to realize now, as an insight—is that the real transformation is what we’re all going through at our own pace and at our own level of consciousness.We also reached the Bitcoin all-time high this weekend, and it unearthed some feelings I hadn’t yet put into words. It helped me process that the core of what I consider valuable, at this moment in my life, is not money, nor a price, nor a number; it is the relationship I have with my need to feel safe, in a self-preservation kind of way. That tension between trusting and not abandoning; between discrimination and control. Once it clicked, I felt a sweet song that made me dance. Financial charts are reading the sentiment of the people: you’ve got to find yourself in which part of the wave you are.We still have this summer ahead, which is going to be even more intense. But the intensity is going to be felt inside. Questions such as: who am I as an individual? How am I serving humanity? And is this something I want to tune into as service, or do I just want to take from society?It’s a real question. And I honestly believe, without offending anybody, that the people who want to take from society are not engaged in introspection. They don’t have the ability to reflect. So I’m speaking more to those of us who are actively questioning, aligning, and tuning our frequency.When 2026 comes to be, we’re going to be so transformed: if we allow that transformation to occur, that the outcome of what we call reality will be completely different. Not because it changes, but because you change.This is the power of human action. This is the power of consciousness. This is the power of being aware.“The core desire within the Soul is to evolve. This desire is what causes the Soul to project itself into the manifested world in order to learn the necessary lessons that will bring it closer to the Source. These lessons are revealed through our relationships—how we meet others, what we attract, what we repel, and what remains unresolved within ourselves.”—Jeffrey Wolf Green, Pluto: The Soul’s Evolution Through Relationships, Volume IIThe axis of perception.Every Relationship is different: it all depends on the perspective where you’re located and where the other situation, person, or thing, is standing. Thus relationships are individual perspectives, and they become non-individual when one side starts becoming aware of what is happening via diverse points of views.I am framing relationship not as a fixed thing between two people, situations or things, but as a shifting dynamic based on where you are holding a position, what you are perceiving, and when awareness enters. This perception or view is also based on your conditioning: where did you grow up, what language(s) you speak, how was your relationship to your parent(s), to your culture, to what you worship, to your needs. So everything, even within yourself—everything is relational. This article wants to dissolve the idea of relationship as something that is predefined. It becomes a field of consciousness shaped by angle, experience, projection, and recognition.“Astrological aspects are not merely angles. They are phases of a dynamic cycle. They represent specific types of relationships between planetary functions, each with its own type of instruction and value. These values evolve depending on where you are in the cycle, just as a Full Moon means something different than a New Moon—even though both are conjunctions of sorts.”—Dane Rudhyar, Astrological AspectsI’ve always been aware that I need another person, a situation, or a thing to become really conscious of who I am and where I’m at. Conversations, for me, are very important: something always happens in dialogue. Now I do that by myself. I’ve been using this practice for seven, eight years; since I started studying astrology, to understand more clearly which phase of the relationship I’m in.Let’s start from the basic: I was born a very curious person, but not just about how things work. The questions were always very deep: What am I doing here? What’s the purpose of life? This is defined by my Pluto, my evolutionary desire, my Soul’s desire. Pluto is in the 8th house, its own house, in Virgo. The archetypes here speak to my desire to learn how to discern and analyze, to become very analytical about the purpose of my life. If I really have to reduce everything, it’s my desire to evolve. I’m here just evolving. That’s the core.Another aspect of Pluto in Virgo is that I’m always in a constant practice of purification. Because you see, when you become too analytical, you start seeing things that are not working. Therefore, you want to make them perfect. You want to realign them, restructure them, make them wholesome. That’s a very Virgo, sixth-house, Mercury-type function: trying to restore order, or what makes sense. Interestingly enough, when I started studying astrology, I realized that a lot of important people in my life that I was attracting were either Virgo rising, Moon in Virgo, Sun in Virgo—something Virgo. I’m attracting in my eighth house, this kind of intimacy so I can actually learn both aspects of the Virgo archetype. Because it’s not just about analyzing and criticizing. It’s about surrendering and becoming wholesome, about embracing discernment and trust. The polarity point of Virgo is Pisces.“Oppositions symbolize the fulfillment of a cycle. They are the most conscious of all aspects, for they force a person to face the full implication of polarity. There is no escape in the opposition. One must either learn to integrate or become fragmented in tension. Yet when integration occurs, oppositions give rise to the clearest light.”—Dane Rudhyar, Astrological AspectsSo let’s speak about aspects.As I mentioned before, transiting Pluto is squaring my Jupiter. But what I’m really talking about is a transit that’s activating the natural function of Jupiter in my 3rd house, Taurus, which is in a balsamic relationship to my Sun, and very close to my Mercury retrograde.So let’s decode this.What does it mean to have Jupiter in Taurus in a balsamic relationship to the Sun, the center of my life, while Mercury retrograde is in a Kazemi relationship to the Sun (Kazemi meaning Mercury is exactly conjunct the Sun within less than one degree, a moment of potential clarity and seeding.) When you think about the 3rd house and Mercury, you think about ideas. But Mercury is retrograde, so it’s a very internalized function of the mind. Mercury and Gemini are the logical stream of our cognition, and Jupiter is the abstract, more intuitive part that integrates every single piece of knowledge. The way it synthesizes is through experience. That’s why Jupiter is close to the seeking of truth: to the pilgrim who leaves home and, in the journey, finds himself or herself.Technically, a retrograde Kazemi is part of the inferior conjunction, which marks the beginning of a new Mercury cycle. But that cycle is born within. It’s not yet visible. It’s a moment of internal conception, not external clarity. That’s why Mercury here is looking inside and trying to make sense of reality in a way that can ground my perception of how I see and validate myself.Now the Sun, as a sandwich here, is very interesting. It stands in the middle of two streams: one is logical, the other is abstract. Together, they help me synthesize and ground what I perceive, ideas and ideologies, into something I can integrate and communicate.What is a balsamic relationship?It’s the end of a cycle. It’s the moment when two bodies come together, and in that meeting, they merge and give birth to something new: an energy that is shared. But it’s the final stage of that conjunction. It has a very different tone than a new phase conjunction. Think about the New Moon, think about the minutes before the New Moon, it’s like a dark Moon, you can barely see it. Everything is dissolving, you cannot see the definition.In this balsamic relationship, I am dissolving behavior and merging with a new light, through the Sun, in order to respond differently to the perspective offered by Jupiter.Jupiter’s role here is essential, Jupiter gives me meaning, but that meaning only comes after a full experience arc. In a balsamic relationship, I am not in the middle of growth, I am preparing for a new philosophical worldview, as I am dissolving fixed ideologies: Taurus is both stubborn and fixed; so that something new can take form when the cycle begins again. And transiting Pluto is an incredible opportunity to transform my views through embodied experience.Each conjunction is not simply a beginning. Its quality depends entirely on the phase relationship of the faster planet to the slower one. A balsamic conjunction, at the end of a cycle, carries the weight of dissolution, closure, and vision for the future. It is the seed of letting go—not a birth, but a preparation for one.—Dane Rudhyar, Astrological Aspects—Now we can introduce the three stages of planetary cycles.Unlike, for instance, involutional: the spirit is incarnating into form. This is the first half, the hemicycle, the first part of the cycle. It generates, it encodes, it is seeding, it is formative, it is instinctual, and it is a ground that is subjective. The whole arc is energy that is building, gathering, emerging, and moving into form.Evolutionary begins at the opposition, 180 degrees. Here there is conscious development. There is awareness. There is another thing that we are seeing from another perspective. So you become aware of you, of your individuality. This is a Libra function: how I can relate to the needs of the other person, situation, or thing. There is mirroring, there is individuation. You start breaking away from what you thought was you, because you are confronted with other ideas, situations, people, and then you can break free from that perception while you mirror your projection and allow something new to emerge. That is the reason for relationships. There is recognition, there is objective growth, and there is synthesis through polarity.So here the energy is now conscious. It is aware. This is reflective learning. This is the integrity phase. And this is why relationships, when they are aware, are really good: because instead of falling into projections or trying to please others because of our own unmet needs, we start mirroring them without assuming that it is just about mimicking. Rather, we use the mirror as an opportunity to evolve.Think of a Full Moon awareness. Now you can see what emerges.The next cycle is the devolutionary. It’s a waning cycle; it’s the breaking of form. It’s from 180 to 360, back home. So this energy is dissolving, it’s releasing, and it’s preparing for a rebirth. You can see some decay, some composting, some disintegration, some liberation, and some reabsorption into the new. This is the balsamic one. What has been created is no longer needed in its old form. This is the letting go part.So I already spoke about Mercury and Jupiter. That is a planetary pair. Let’s speak now about the Moon and Saturn. Why do I know these pairs very well? Because these are the rulers of my nodal axis. I was born with Saturn ruling my South Node of the Moon, and the Moon being the ruler of my North Node. So we speak about boundaries; we speak about protection; we speak about security, about structure, accountability, and embracing one’s heart.Because both Mercury and Jupiter are in the 3rd house, this dialogue happens in real time. It shows at all times in my conversations, in my writing, in the way I process reality moment to moment. By being in Taurus, it makes this deeply embodied, because Taurus, Venus, and the 2nd house are all about of essential needs. I am sensing the truth through texture, resonance-based contact. It is a very physical energy. But because I’m using the mind structure, I stay away from just theories. I need to actually embody and experience these ideas so that they become a way of living, a way of life. As Mercury is gathering information, it translates through the senses. And remember, it is retrograde, so it is also internalizing this through the senses. But also, it takes time to process. While Jupiter is trying to give it a place, a value, a larger field, a meaning—in Taurus, it does need to take some time to understand the shape of things. It needs to digest. They both seek coherence in the practice, not in the theory. It is a foundational mental activity.I speak from knowledge, when I’m curious, I ask questions, because I need to ground them in an experience. I need to speak from a feeling, where the meaning will land eventually. So when this pair is activated by transit—like right now, with Pluto squaring Jupiter and soon squaring my Sun and my Mercury—it is being tested. Do I still hold this perspective? Is it really mine? Can it evolve? This is a re-sensing of the meaning from where I am right now. It’s a slow process of changing my point of view.In the next part, as Saturn speaks to form, the Moon speaks emotional need. And because they both rule my nodal axis, this tension becomes the development path in itself. This is the energy and the frequency that I came with. It gives me a direction. And in the past, I have learned to survive by being structured, responsible, and aligned with outer standards, like with institutions. So the conditioning has created these very solid structures. But in order to pull forward in evolution, I need the Moon’s archetype.So it’s a return to the instinct, and also a softness—something that nourishes, something that is felt without defense. It’s an invitation not to abandon structure, but to let feeling reshape it. So I am reshaping the structure of my direction with feeling. I’m allowing my emotional body to direct me, not control me, because I have to become very aware of my emotions. I have to let the internal emotional body come forward and re-parent the parts that were once held to control. And I’ve been speaking about my upbringing already. So it is about integration. The Moon is just melting the parts that have been calcified. It is helping open them up, because we do need the support from Saturn. And it’s reminding me that safety is not rigid. It’s about intimacy. It’s about attunement. And every time I felt this tension in relationship, I had to ask: Is this a boundary, or is this a wall?And that's not the only piece. My Moon is in a balsamic relationship to Neptune, and it's a Full Moon in relationship to the Sun. So again, I'm carrying multiple layers of endings and revelations. The Moon and Neptune in Scorpio are dissolving in preparation for some invisible integration on my Midheaven, filled with feeling but not yet released. I'm born at the axis of awareness. I carry both the light of knowing and the depth of feeling, adding another layer of invisibility, of longing, of mysticism that has no name. The Moon here is not seeking to be seen; it's seeking to merge. And when you put this together with a Full Moon configuration, it becomes a double mirror: consciousness and unconsciousness are both exposed.Mysticism I discovered when I was really little, but I decided to be quiet about it. I realized very early on, six years old, that there were certain things I couldn’t speak to others because they were going to create a little bit of problems, especially in school, because I could see and sense things far more than other people. And I did well. I did not speak up, only until I was trained. I actually looked for teachers, not only in books, but in real life. And this has been my journey: to really master things through the direct transmission of people who are very specialized in different subjects. And I keep experiencing these transmissions. I keep going forward.So I was trained. My emotional body was trained not to be reactive, but to be responsive. But then those are other stories.This is not just about planetary pairs, it’s also about how those pairs are held by the Sun, by the axis of light, by opposition, by conjunction, by dissolution. These aspects are dynamic, they are all stages of intimacy.There’s an awareness that I got to accept later in my life: that whatever energy I’m emanating in the public is not how I see myself. It can be very confusing, not deceiving, but confusing, because it has so many layers of depth that only if you’re willing to get into those layers, you can see me. But in a way, it’s almost like I chose to be very tricky, so I only want people who really tune into my frequency to be revealed. I don’t want to be part of the institutions that I was part of with my Nodal Axis. I’m stepping away from that.But this conjunction is also a gift. Neptune on the Midheaven allows for a porous, refined sensitivity to what is invisible, what is unspoken. It lends a frequency to my public image that can be felt, even when it’s not explained. It opens the possibility of attunement. It asks others to trust what they sense, not just what they see.“In its highest function, Neptune at the Midheaven calls the individual to serve as a transmitter of universal ideals—not through institutions, but through presence. It dissolves the mask of persona, not to hide, but to offer communion.”—Dane Rudhyar, The Astrology of TransformationConnecting through chartsThis is how I read charts the way I do. Of course, you can use AI to do that, but reading charts has nothing to do with just definitions or categories. That’s why I’m speaking about aspects in this article. It’s about relationships, and how these relationships have different depths. Machines or generic information is just pure data. Because all this is about correlation and observation, and correlation as a living experience.In my experience, it’s what I bring. Having my Moon in the 9th house, my Pluto in the 8th, the Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter oppose that Moon, trining my Pluto and sextiling my Pluto—this is a chart that lives in tension, and it requires embodiment.The Moon in the 9th house is often seen as a seeker, but in Scorpio it’s seeking intensity and immersion in deep emotional resonance that must be made meaningful. The Moon rules the emotional body, and the 9th house carries that Jupiter archetype, which seeks to make sense of the experience.When I say I read charts, what I mean is I connect, I perceive, I attune. It’s not just the symbols. I listen to the frequency. I allow the image of the chart to guide me inward toward what is ready to be revealed. I use my curiosity to ask the right questions to tap into the psyche of the person whose chart I’m reading. I am a very perceptive person, this works through waves.I’m deeply curious, so when I read the chart, I know what to ask. This is not coming from my mind. It’s coming from a feeling, something that I’m perceiving in the moment, with a part of me that has trained itself to recognize when something is re ady to be seen.So by observation and correlation, not interpretation, I’m living the chart. All this evolution, these cycles and growth, and relational values, is extremely meaningful to me. That’s why I’m sharing with you.“Evolutionary astrology recognizes that all astrological correlations arise within the total field of relationships: between the soul and the body, between consciousness and experience, between past cycles and present intention.”—Jeffrey Wolf Green, Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the SoulASTRO MAP Right now I'm tracking several key transits: Mars conjunct the South Node in Virgo, squaring Venus in Gemini; Mercury retrograde at 15° Leo; Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Pisces; and Pluto square Chiron at the end of Aries.But what's really capturing my attention this week is the Mars–South Node conjunction in Virgo. It's activating this need to dive deep and discriminate, to purify patterns from the past. I'm not in a dark place, but I'm going into the darkness of my feelings. When they become thoughts, instead of letting them hover or race around me, I pause to feel them in my body—a somatic practice where I ask where they want to guide me. Through that felt sense, I can redesign my present moment.This is what Pluto square Jupiter is revealing. I've been reflecting on inherited belief systems—family, country, religion. It feels like a real opportunity to shift not just my thoughts, but how I embody them.Mercury retrograde in Leo is returning to the exact point where Mars opposed Pluto three times last year—the final one on my birthday at 3° Leo and 3° Aquarius, squaring my Jupiter at 3° Taurus. Now Mercury is retracing that same territory, bringing something back for revision. That Mars–Pluto opposition was about force, power, will. Now Mercury asks: how are we thinking? Can we rethink it creatively? Can we live it differently?The answer isn't in logic—it's through the felt sense. All thoughts need to be digested. Mercury–Jupiter can bring coherence, but only when it lands in the body. (This is in my chart btw, for the rest of you it is a creative experience.)Mars and the South Node are trying to initiate a new form of discernment. Mercury rules both Virgo and Gemini, so it's tied to this conjunction as well as the Venus square. I'm using the mind to listen, to refine how I'm feeling what I value, what gives me meaning.Venus is applying to both the South Node and Mars, very close to my natal Venus in Gemini. It's squaring my natal Chiron, and the transiting Nodes are aligned with my Chiron as well. This is asking me to let go of doubt—not through willpower, but by surrendering into what's actually happening right now.For example: when Bitcoin reached new highs recently, although I had seen the signals, that fear of not having enough—FOMO—still came up. It's a body imprint of lost opportunities. My second house is ruled by Pisces in my chart, the house of values, and it has a deep memory of loss, of abandonment. I felt abandonment when my father died. The losses are always impregnated in my body as something that is missing. Therefore, my relationship with how I make myself whole is always coming from this big black hole.I've been taking careful, intentional steps, and sometimes I doubt myself—not because I made a mistake, but because I'm not embodying that decision. I let the mind run loud. So I've been shifting that.I'm noting the thought patterns riding faster than the body. The body has a denser materiality than the mind. The mind is air—it just goes around, moves very fast. With the mind, we leave our bodies. We dysregulate our emotional felt sense. Our emotions can only be felt in the body. When they're riding the mind, I'm not aligned.So this Mercury retrograde feels like a breakthrough moment. We're being asked to talk about value—Venus. To look at the mind—Gemini. To examine how we relate to doubt. Overanalyzing can be confusing, but the antidote is Pisces: surrender. Because Pisces is at the other side, ruling the North Node—that's the direction.We need to surrender with discernment. To trust the part of ourselves that knows how to be present. It's about being in the present moment, about the breath. When I trust it, I'm embodied. When I doubt, I'm not in my body—I'm in my mind.The answer to Saturn and Neptune squaring my Nodes right now: I'm seeing very carefully where the deceit has been, and where the direction could be if I tend to it in the next few months. It's almost like a rehearsal dinner for what's going to happen in the next year. It's about revising everything without being overly meticulous or obsessed, but with attention.Pluto square Chiron—this is collective. Chiron in Aries is exposing the wound of self, the individuality wound, how it shows up in the collective. And the planetary nodes of Chiron are being activated. This is about all of us. Pluto is asking us to transform the wound, to shift it from being about identity to being about value. You can identify with something, but if you don't value it, there's no meaning.The planetary nodes of Chiron are located at the end of Aries and the beginning of Taurus. The South Node holds the collective memory of a wound around individuality—the deep imprint of feeling unsafe in our own selfhood, of questioning whether listening to our needs makes us selfish or unworthy of connection. It's the wound of having to suppress instinct or self-direction in order to belong. And now, with Pluto squaring Chiron and these nodes being activated, that collective wound is being exposed, to be made conscious, so it can be transmuted into embodied value.This year we've been moving through a full axis of eclipses—Pisces and Virgo—beginning in March and returning again this September. The first was a total lunar eclipse at 23° Virgo on March 14, followed by a solar eclipse at 8° Aries on March 29. Now we're moving toward a total lunar eclipse at 15° Pisces on September 7, followed by a solar eclipse at 28° Virgo on September 21.That's the full spectrum: Virgo to Pisces, precision to surrender, clarity to mystery, embodiment to spirit. What I'm starting to feel is that it's showing us what needs to be refined and what needs to be released, with Saturn and Neptune going back retrograde into Pisces, it's all internal. No one's going to tell you how to do this. You have to feel it for yourself. That's what I mean when I say the real change is not out there. 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